Urban Legends about the Iraq War

Here's a very helpful debunking of several urban legends that are popular these days concerning the war in Iraq--myths such as:

• the president misled the country in order to justify the Iraq war
• the administration pressured intelligence agencies to bias their judgments
• Saddam Hussein turned out to be no threat since he didn't possess weapons of mass destruction
  
• helping democracy take root in the Middle East was a postwar rationalization