[tolbiny]

Can't it be both? Your average american wouldn't give a crap about WMDs if the military had rolled in there, crushed Saddam's army, and set up a stable government. If 2 years after the invasion there was no real insurgancy anything short of absolute proof of the administration lying would be brushed off by the "but the Iraqi's are so much better off now" crowd. A war in which Americans do "great" things isn't going to be criticized by and large by the public, they gain a national pride out of stuff like that, so as long as the administration thought that it could pull of the occupation without much difficulty they really don't have much to fear from accusations of lying.