Except that there is pretty strong evidence that many of the people in "the free world's intelligence services" who actually had some relevant expertise were pretty sceptical on the subject. But I imagine, even if that stuff ever got through to Bush level, it would have been in the small print, and not in the simplified summary that he might have got round to reading.

So agreed, Bush probably wasn't lying, any more than a newscaster reading the autocue is lying when he reads the words in front of him.