Bush says intelligence on Iraqi arms was `darn good'

But Fleischer also tore into critics who have suggested that the administration knowingly exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq.

"This revisionist notion that somehow this is now the core of why we went to war, a central issue in why we went to war, a fundamental underpinning of the president's decisions, is a bunch of bull," he said.

"As far as the president is concerned, he's moved on. I think the bottom has been gotten to," he said.

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