weapons on their own people. We aided them in their war against Iran.
The problem is that we had decided that we wanted to invade Iraq and commissioned the CIA to come up with reasons to do so that the American public could get behind... so the CIA manufactured evidence to get the public to go along with their plans.
One piece of the evidence to show this are the Niger uranium forgeries:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries