One doesn't really need to go much further than this Daily Show compilation to see what happened [1]. As for Iraq, the article is just wrong. Here's a 1998 let

One doesn't really need to go much further than this Daily Show compilation to see what happened [1]. As for Iraq, the article is just wrong. Here's a 1998 letter sent to then-president Bill Clinton urging him to invade Iraq [2]. The astute will notice this was 3 years before 9/11. Look at the signatories. They include: - Donald Rumsfeld: future (and previous) Defense Secretary under George W. Bush who oversaw the invasion of Iraq; - Paul Wolfowitz. Rumsfeld's deputy under Bush, arguably even more hawkish than Rumsfeld. He openly admitted Iraq was "about oil" and the WMD excuse was "bureaucratic" [3]; - Richard L. Armitage: Colin Powell's deputy at State during the Iraq war; - Peter W. Rodman, an assistant Defense secretary under Rumsfeld; There are other names there who are or were influential conservative journalists and "thought" leaders in the neocon movement eg William Kristol. Whatever else you might say, intelligence didn't fail on Iraq (or Iran) for that matter. Political goals simply trumped everything else. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JC56Ltg5zDE https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JC56Ltg5zDE [2]: https://noi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/iraqclintonletter1998-01-26-Copy.pdf https://noi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/iraqclintonletter... [3]: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialist-viewpoint-us/june_03/june_03_25.html https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialist-vie...