More information on this topic, though perhaps not on the "why", but the "how", specifically, "how the public was tricked to go along with it", which included e

More information on this topic, though perhaps not on the "why", but the "how", specifically, "how the public was tricked to go along with it", which included endorsing known-bogus intelligence: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/mi6-stood-by-bogus-intelligence-until-after-iraq-invasion https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/06/mi6-stood-by... Calling dissent anti-Semitic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/02/18/toxic-talk-on-war/5d267a99-ed55-4903-9ac6-622a3cd38c3e/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2003/02/18/t... And the now classic: phony appeals to humanitarianism: https://www.haaretz.com/2003-04-03/ty-article/white-mans-burden/0000017f-e398-d804-ad7f-f3fa5d520000 https://www.haaretz.com/2003-04-03/ty-article/white-mans-bur...