The White House's latest spin on Bush lying about WMD: Bush wasn't in the loop, but pretended he was anyway

Yes, their defense of Bush claiming Iraq had mobile biological labs, when Iraq did not, is that Bush didn't know that our intelligence agencies had already disproven the claim.

That's nice. Our president is selling us on a war when he's not even in the loop on the reasons, or lack thereof, for going to war in the first place. Nice. So who should we listen to next time the White House wants us to go to war, since Bush isn't in the loop?

The White House's second contention is even more laughable. You see, it takes many months for the intelligence folks to determine whether we did or didn't find evidence of WMD in Iraq, and Bush spoke BEFORE we had determined if the evidence was real or not.

Did you get that? Bush told us equivocally that we'd found WMD, when in fact, he knew the team sent to determine if we'd found WMD wouldn't reach its conclusion for months to come. So, Bush publicly confirmed we had found WMD when he knew we weren't sure yet, and wouldn't know for months. Tell me again how this makes things better?

So, either Bush is out of the loop and has no idea what the facts are regarding America's decision-making when it comes to going to war, or Bush likes to jump the gun and make definitive statements to the American people about why we need to go to war, but he uses evidence that he knows isn't even real yet.

So tell me again, Scottie, which one is it? Is Bush ignorant or simply a liar?