All ya gotta do is read the danged polls. Lots of Amercians still believe this crap. Of the *Big Three* lies (WMD's, Al Qaeda links and Nuclear threat) most Americans still believe in at least one. And way too many believe all three? Yeah the lies get printed on page one and the retractions on page 23, right under the local hog prices.
Like where did all of these folks comeup with these ideas, T-Bird????... Did they have some kind of cosmic collective dream, 'er what. Of course they didn't, you knothead. They were carefully conditioned to think this way. By whom? Take a guess....
Playing symantics here is nothing more than an academic exercise. Bottom line, there is no doubt that Bush and Co' wanted people to believe the Big Three. And just keep in mind that Hitler observed that people will more easily accept big lies than smaller ones...