Blame Spreading White House talking point:
"If Democrats want to talk about the threat that Saddam Hussein posed and the intelligence, they might want to start with looking at the previous administration and their own statements that they've made," White House press secretary Scott McClellan
Refocusing the bull crap on the other side...
When you hear anyone parrot this distortion when talking politics, here's what you should say:
What the White House is conveniently forgetting is that congress used the intelligence and its interpretations that were provided by the White House, so of course everyone thought Saddam was a threat!
If the allegations of pre-war distortions and lies are true, the point McClellann makes is moot. The real problem is that everyone trusted the President, assuming the White House would never stoop so low.
You can also say:
Nobody ever thought something like the pre-war lies could actually happen here in the United States of America. Most of us assumed that our political leaders had far more integrity than that, even Democrats. We assumed that our system of checks and balances would work to eliminate that much impropriety from such a monumental decision. We grew overconfident, and opportunistic devils took advantage of that complacency.