> WMD were never a credible excuse for war in the first place I couldn't agree more. Neither the UK nor US were under an existential threat. Even if they had re

> WMD were never a credible excuse for war in the first place I couldn't agree more. Neither the UK nor US were under an existential threat. Even if they had reason to believe that there was a direct threat to an ally i.e. Israel, that is no reason to wage pre-emptive war. > Finally, there was no bluff going on - that's revisionist history That's simply not true. The Iraqi government were deliberately dicking the IAEA inspectors around trying to maintain the fiction that they still had chemical weapons. They wanted the outside world to believe that they were a threat but gambled that there was no political will to do anything about it. They were right on the former and, until 9/11, right on the latter. What I find shocking is the gullibility of the intelligence services and the politicians. What I consider heinous is that they were willing to wage pre-emptive war regardless of the motive.