I wasn't being snarky. You keep dwelling on the Iraq WMD argument. But:
Congress eventually concluded that the Bush administration had "overstated" its dire warnings about the Iraqi threat, and that the administration's claims about Iraq's WMD program were "not supported by the underlying intelligence reporting."
So if you want to blame someone, then blame the Bush administration, not the underlying intelligence. Please stop with the WMD all-purpose anti-intelligence argument already. Let's just drop the WMD reference altogether as it relates to anything going on right now. Because it doesn't.
Yeah, it was "widely believed." But it was perpetrated by one source. Whereas the widely-held belief of Putin's complicity in the apartment building bombing does not have a singular point of origin. That gives it more credibility, all else being equal. And whereas the Bush administration pushed the WMD agenda for its own benefit, as it saw it, the people who accused Putin did so at considerable personal risk. Some lost their life in the process. See the difference?
And whereas you are twisting and turning, giving Putin all manner of the benefit of the doubt, you were ready to stick a fork into Clinton for mere allusions of impropriety without underlying factual evidence. You are adhering to a very different standard when it comes to the two.
So where's the snark?
Of course it's OK when Hillary is in bed with the Russians.
It's perfectly acceptable to liberals to sell uranium to Russians so they can process it to weapons grade and sell it to Iran, North Korea, etc.