Since the Bush Administration was both unwilling to listen to advice contrary to what it wanted to hear and obviously completely clueless about what the aftermath would actually be, that doesn’t mean much. It would be consistent with the rest of their behavior to have intended to help Israel and to have harmed it instead.
They were idiots. Consistently.
They could not truthfully ‘expect’ to find weapons on March 17 when they did not have any knowledge of a location of hidden weapons on March 7, 2003.
If they didn’t truthfully have faith in the UN to disarm Iraq peacefully then they outright lied through their teeth to get the authorization to use force passed in October 2002.
Their unwillingness to wait for the process of peaceful disarmament to finish adds weight to the case that they were not quite sure that a hidden stockpile could actually be found. And on that point the Bush Admin was quite sold on the ‘belief’ that the war would take weeks not months and that US troops would be greeted as liberators and the oil would pay for it.
The belief in a swift US victory by the Bushies allowed them ‘not’ to worry about their lack of evidence for a real threat ‘reason’ for starting a war of aggression against Iraq. They could count on the supportive press to finish the assist. They quickly turned the reason for the war anyway to the world was better off with Saddam Hussein gone.
I realize that you prefer to call it carelessly overselling the evidence, but claiming to have evidence on the eve of announcing he was starting a war was selling something he could not have possessed. He lied when he made this statement:
“Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.”
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/17/sprj.irq.bush.transcript/
Like I said ten days before this Bush had no intelligence gathered that Iraq was hiding WMD. He was lying in that statement. He did not oversell it. He did not have it.