I strongly believe it was a combination of bush finishing his daddy's legacy + Hussein playing into the narrative to try to gain power and attention.Adam curtis

I strongly believe it was a combination of bush finishing his daddy's legacy + Hussein playing into the narrative to try to gain power and attention.Adam curtis' hypernormalization BBC documentary is a very good intro to the topic: it was very eye opening, I had no idea that (according to many western intelligence outfits) almost certainly Qaddafi was NOT responsible for pan an lockerbie. Why he didn't deny it and why the intelligence agencies didn't bother going after the truth is answered by curtis' thesis.