you mean they lied to us?

Knight Ridder reports that U.S. intel agencies warned the White House in the fall of 2003 that the Iraq insurgency was taking off and was made up mostly of locals— both contrary to the administration's assertions at the time. "Frankly, senior officials simply weren't ready to pay attention to analysis that didn't conform to their own optimistic scenarios," said one official who was then chairman of the National Intelligence Council.