"the US intelligence community ... decided that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction"
I hope you realize this was all an invention of the US intelligence community — they knew all along it was bullshit. It's well documented at this point.
The other bullshit that has never been substantiated is the narrative that Saddam was working in collusion with Bin Laden. Despite the latter being quite vocal about his derision of Saddam's secularism and suppression of the Shia. But ask any average American today and "of course" they were in cahoots.
I hope you realize this was all an invention of the US intelligence community — they knew all along it was bullshit. It's well documented at this point.