This video predates the Iraq war by a few years but is a critical look into how this sort of thing works with world powers. Noam Chomsky "Sovereignty & World O

This video predates the Iraq war by a few years but is a critical look into how this sort of thing works with world powers. Noam Chomsky "Sovereignty & World Order" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtBQ7iTyfBQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtBQ7iTyfBQ Also regarding the other comments about WMDs (from Vox): "To some extent, this is beside the point; even if they had been totally cautious and careful in characterizing the intelligence, the war still would’ve been a catastrophic mistake that took an immense human toll. But the truth also matters, and the truth is that there were numerous occasions when Bush and his advisers made statements that intelligence agencies knew to be false, both about WMDs and about Saddam Hussein’s nonexistent links to al-Qaeda. The term commonly used for making statements that one knows to be false is "lying."" https://www.vox.com/2016/7/9/12123022/george-w-bush-lies-iraq-war https://www.vox.com/2016/7/9/12123022/george-w-bush-lies-ira...