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>Western intelligence community also converged on the conclusion that Iraq had WMDs Not really. There was a decent amount of dissent in the western intel commu
by badlucklottery 10y ago
>Western intelligence community also converged on the conclusion that Iraq had WMDs
Not really. There was a decent amount of dissent in the western intel community on Iraqi WMDs (pretty much everyone not in the "coalition of the willing" and even some within it), it's just that the Bush administration purposefully ignored the dissenters.
>Though if you have any other credible source, please share it.
If you don't believe the intelligence community can ever be trusted again after Iraq, I don't think there's any source could be enough for you. If the authorities on the subject are in on the conspiracy, then any proof could be just another layer on the conspiracy, right? Turtles all the way down.
- untog 10y agoThat perspective also makes me wonder: surely we should shut down all intelligence services tomorrow? If their output is deemed to be tainted by Iraq, what's the point in paying for them? Suffice to say, this doesn't seem like a reasonable perspective to me.