RE: Old news.
How old was Trump’s claim that Bush invaded Iraq under false pretenses, that he KNEW there were no WMD’s but invaded anyway?
I think the "false pretenses" were more that we were somehow imminently threatened by the "WMD" and therefore needed to take Saddam out. There was no real immediate threat which justified a military invasion and we probably knew that, or in the least, we should have known that which gives rise to the notion that we did know that.
The WMD claim seems now to have been supportive of a larger policy GW was intent on doing. The WMD issue was more like a "search warrant", and not the reason for invading. In retrospect, how could it be so wrong to say Iraq was largely about oil and about regime change?
I was all for it then, but I started doubting when Paul Bremmer didn't pull off the miracle that GW said was going to happen after "winning the war". Remember the money giveaways? So disappointing.
Regime change as a policy initiative hasn't worked out so well in the Middle East. We were supposed to get a domino effect of representative governments, and instead we have gotten Sharia.