Document used to justify the invasion of Iraq
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Topic: Document used to justify the invasion of Iraq
Posted By: abuayisha
Subject: Document used to justify the invasion of Iraq
Date Posted: 22 March 2015 at 9:08am
Thirteen years ago, the intelligence community concluded in a 93-page classified document used to justify the invasion of Iraq that it lacked "specific information" on "many key aspects" of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs.
But that's not what top Bush administration officials said during their campaign to sell the war to the American public. Those officials, citing the same classified document, asserted with no uncertainty that Iraq was actively pursuing nuclear weapons, concealing a vast chemical and biological weapons arsenal, and posing an immediate and grave threat to US national security.
https://news.vice.com/article/the-cia-just-declassified-the-document-that-supposedly-justified-the-iraq-invasion
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Posted By: Caringheart
Date Posted: 22 March 2015 at 7:41pm
Hi abuayisha,
The way I remember, it was actually Tony Blair that 'sold the war'... to the world in general... convincing the american president of the threat, who then shared the belief in that threat (saying it came from good intelligence) with the american public.
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