Simple. Every single news agency said as much. Here's one from two months after Baghdad was captured. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/09/wmd.controversy/

Simple. Every single news agency said as much. Here's one from two months after Baghdad was captured. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/09/wmd.controversy/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/06/09/wmd.controversy/in... Here's the NY Times less than a month into the invasion noting that no active chemical weapons program had been found and that the administration's words seemed to be shifting about whether they believed it would ever be found: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/world/a-nation-at-war-illicit-arms-us-forces-have-searched-few-iraqi-weapons-sites.html https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/05/world/a-nation-at-war-ill... Meanwhile, those who watched Fox News were never told that the earlier finds were not ongoing chemical weapons programs: https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/poll-republicans-wmds-iraq-114016 https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/poll-republicans-wmds...