The difference over here in England is that nobody seems to think those things.

The Blairite line is that they really did think that Saddam had some weapons, though of course they never thought he had anything to do with Al Qaida, let alone September 11th - but he was a really nasty guy, and it's good that he's out of the way. And that anyway we're stuck in there now, and have to sort out the mess we made, and we should move on from arguing about why we're there. (And the implication always is that if the British weren't there, God knows what the Americans would do to the place. Sort of soft cop, hard cop.)