I'm not edging around it - in fact that was precisely what I had in mind when I suggested that the fact someone thinks that the war was justified wouldn't require that they think that Bush and Blair weren't lying.

Those poll results put together seem to indicate that this is actually a rather common point of view. Most people probably assume that professional politicians in general are liars anyway. As implied in such aphorisms as "An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."

As for Saddam's regime - if containment was a good policy last year and the year before that, it was a better policy this year; if an invasion to get rid of him was a good policy this year, it would have been just as good a policy years ago, and no worse next year.