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This thread seems a bit naive to me. The UK & US knew Iraq didn't have WMDs, but wanted to invade anyway. The intelligence that the invasion was based on was ri
by jimmytidey 9y ago
This thread seems a bit naive to me. The UK & US knew Iraq didn't have WMDs, but wanted to invade anyway. The intelligence that the invasion was based on was risible.
If you look at Bush's approval ratings, you can see the incentive he had to fight his reelection campaign in the context of a military response to 9/11. That was the reason for the invasion.
The West didn't care about the facts of his having WMD or not.
Now, we're paying the price of a capricious attitude to regime change in other countries: nothing that can be said will persuade NK that it isn't in existential danger.