My unanswered question about all of this is, why did we have such a bad intelligence about these weapons of mass destruction?
Are the CIA and other intelligence agencies just that inept that they were fooled by someone that Saddam did have weapons of mass destruction?
Who exactly planted the seed in the minds of our intelligence agencies that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
Who stood the gain from us starting a war of choice in Iraq? And were they the purveyors of false information to our intelligence community?
The CIA and other intelligence agencies are just “Monkey Paws” for the administration’s desired actions.
The problem comes when the actions taken but without evidence becomes the curse of the Monkey Paw”
To make the invasion legal, an imminent threat to American lives, or a plausible belief of it, was needed. White House legal council informed W he needed an imminent threat to invade, and the WMD stories started one week later. The invasion to get Saddam had nothing to do with bad intelligence.
One of the inspectors said...Unless they take us to them, we’ll never find them.
“Who stood the gain from us starting a war of choice in Iraq?”
Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, the Kurds,