BB - I am not holding anyone to a different standard, no matter what you may think.   Any president that would have relied on the British report and ignored our own intelligence gathering (well, maybe that is a good thing) or UNSCOM's report that there was no evidence of existing WMD's and that they had evidence that the nerve gas lost lethality as late as 1991, yes, he should have given it second thought.   Lie?   In this case, yes.

Waiting for the one report that justifies your position when other evidence points to alternate evidence is just wrong.   It is more than politics, it is logic.