Embarrassed ? Oh no, I forgot. You can shame or embarrass a liberal
Critics of the Iraq War have consistently claimed that George W. Bush misled the U.S. into an immoral and/or unnecessary conflict by lying repeatedly about an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that Saddam Hussein allegedly possessed and might supply these weapons to terrorists like those who had already attacked America on 9/11.
Democrat Senator Harry Reid spoke for a host of other opponents of the war in insisting that "the Bush White House manufactured and manipulated intelligence in order to bolster its case for the war in Iraq." Senator Ted Kennedy depicted the war as a sinister plot "made up in Texas" and sold to Congress because it "was going to be good politically" for President Bush. "The whole thing was a fraud," said Kennedy. Former Vice President Al Gore charged that Bush was "engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate the facts in service to a totalistic ideology," and that the invasion of Iraq had nothing to do with WMD, but rather had been "pre-ordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place."
In fact, however, George Tenet, George W. Bush's CIA director, assured the President that the case for Saddam possessing WMD was “a slam dunk.” In this assessment, Tenet had the backing of all fifteen agencies involved in gathering intelligence for the United States. The National Intelligence Estimate of 2002, where their collective views were summarized, asserted with “high confidence” that "Iraq is continuing, and in some areas expanding its chemical, biological, nuclear, and missile programs contrary to UN resolutions.
The intelligence agencies of Britain, Germany, Russia, China, Israel, and France all agreed with this judgment. Even Hans Blix—who headed the UN team of inspectors trying to determine whether Saddam had complied with the demands of the Security Council that he dispose of the WMD he was known to have had in the past—lent further credibility to the case in a report he issued only a few months before the invasion: