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You have to sit and wonder why these guys with all this money, expertise, equipment, experience and information got it so wrong and kept getting it wrong.
Hans Blix who was in the country with a team of trained researchers was coming up with nothing. Even the intelligence that was being given was not any good.
Then there was the total lack of any evidence that he STIIL had weapons he had when he was a friend of the US, using them against Iranians.
Then you look at who was really in charge of the whole thing and the way they was manipulating the media, the people of the world and the leaders of their inteligence forces. Bush and Blair.
Neither were interested in listening to anything that did not support their theories. In the UK parliment they read out a report stating Saddam had WMDs, it was written by a student using old material.
All the real evidence pointed the other way, but no one was listening. Who would have been brave enough to tell their leader he had it wrong? In the UK two senior cabinet ministers resigned becasue of Blairs single mindedness, did they KNOW the truth?
Then look at the evidence coming from Iraq, you have a guy wanting to make more money. So maybe he will seel some information, what is going to get a better price?
Saddam has WMDs in that fertilizer factory.
Saddam has no WMDs
Then you have the "evidence" needed to go to your boss. Who praises your and orders a couple of cruise missiles to hit a factory producing fertilizer to help farmers grow food and killing a few residents at the same time.
The evidence turns up NOTHING, the Iraqis let the medai come in and look around, they find nothing and you are hated a little bit more by a few more people. Biggest surprise is some Americans still think they are liberators.
Whole thing was a fuck up from the start and few had the guts to stand up to Bush.
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