Washington ? While admitting “we were wrong” about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, President Bush’s national security adviser on Sunday rejected assertions that the president manipulated intelligence and misled the American people.

Bush relied on the collective judgment of the intelligence community when he determined that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, national security adviser Stephen Hadley said.

“Turns out, we were wrong,” Hadley told “Late Edition” on CNN. “But I think the point that needs to be emphasized … allegations now that the president somehow manipulated intelligence, somehow misled the American people, are flat wrong.”

Bush said Democrats in Congress had the same intelligence about Iraq, and he argued that many now claiming that the information had been manipulated had supported going to war.