A lie you say.
How does not finding wmd after we bombed every govt building to their foundation, and the citizens looted everything down to the plumbing, prove they werent there months earlier?
Oh and "congress said nothing".
Your knowledge of US foreign policy is that of a child.
As a matter of fact they did say something. There were several extensive reports, including this one:
Detailing intelligence failures. Note the report does not conclude anyone lied except perhaps joe wilson.
A lie requires someone knows facts other than what they are saying. Not one piece of intelligence has ever come out that was available to Bush which concluded that Saddam had disarmed.
Not a single one.
And as for not finding wmd... So what. Doesnt mean they werent there.
The final report allows the possibility that they were moved or destroyed before the war.
Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
www.govinfo.gov
But I guess you wouldnt know that as you think congress and the media didnt say anything?. Where the fuck were you for 5 years?
But no, WMD was not the primary reason for the war.
Petrodollars, killing terrorists, paying up an old debt, beating down a bully that had it coming.
If you were paying attention youd know that. Congress was, thats why they voted for it.
2 decades later people like you think you know about policy by reading a headline in Mother Jones.