Three Lies

Norman Podhoretz claims that the Bush administration never lied in making his case for war. Here are three specific instances in which he did:

In October 2002, Bush said that Iraq had a "massive stockpile" of bioweapons. George Tenet later said the following: ""We said we had no specific information on the types or quantities of [biological] weapons, agent, or stockpiles at Baghdad's disposal." Bush made this up out of thin air; he didn't know if Iraq had a "massive stockpile" of bioweapons, and yet claimed that it did anyway.

In December 2002, Bush said that we didn't know if Iraq had a nuclear weapons. Again, here's what Tenet had to say: "We said Saddam Hussein did not have a nuclear weapon." This is an out and out lie; Bush claimed that we didn't know when, in fact, we did.

Condoleeza Rice claimed, on national television, that the aluminum tubes that Iraq purchased were only usable as uranium centrifuges. In the words of a CIA analyst at the time: "that's just a lie."
And those are only the ones I have on hand. But the record is clear: Bush and co. repeatedly exaggerated, lied, and just plain made stuff up. Podhoretz is just wrong.