If you don't want to believe that George Bush is just a plain old bastard, how about this - ?

Maybe Saddam never really had weapons of mass destruction, but maybe he wanted his neighbours (Iran in particular) to believe he did. During the US-led arms economic sanctions, when Iraq's finances were seriously depleted, maybe it became even more important for him to bluff his potential adversaries. In such a situation, perhaps he deliberately faked an advanced program of WMD as a means of keeping the local hoodlums (Iran and Syria, to name a few) at bay, while also giving the USA something to think about. Maybe the easiest way to do this was to create fake images for US spy satellites?

Perhaps the gentlemen of the CIA and the FBI - people who barely understand the reality of life in the Third World - were seriously confused by this? Perhaps they dutifully reported what they saw, noting the ambiguities and outstanding questions along the way. Then perhaps GEORGE BUSH AND HIS OIL BARON MATES SEIZED CONTROL OF THE WHITEHOUSE WITH A PRE-ARRANGED AGENDA AND MANIPULATED THE SITUATION FOR THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE.

The thing is, you don't start a war and kill thousands of innocent people without 100% reliable intelligence... unless you really WANT TO!

Remember, you heard it here first! :-)