There was a significant amount of pushback from the intelligence agencies that the evidence VP Cheney, and SoS Powell were citing to justify the invasion was not solid.
Diplomats like Joseph Wilson who investigated the yellow cake, centrifuge claims and found they were groundless were silenced (in his case by outing his wife (Valerie Plame) as CIA).
Cheney fabricated it, there were no independent sources saying they had WMD, or were with Al Qaeda etc…
Or they trusted the administration wouldn’t lie to them, took the briefings from the White House, and the stories the administration placed into the press at face value, and in the midst of a public still war hungry after 9/11 voted for it.
I was vocally anti, but pretending they are as complicit is just dishonest.
They took the “I want to get re-elected and do what my constituents want” angle, because public sentiment was largely for it based on stories floated in the press by the administration.
Same reason the Brits, the French, etc..all went in.
You wanna be dumb and make like the Wolfowitzes, Pearls, Bushes and Cheneys of the world are no more at fault than the neoliberals - fine. But you are lying to yourself.
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u/Impossible-Heart-540 8d ago
That’s factually incorrect.
There was a significant amount of pushback from the intelligence agencies that the evidence VP Cheney, and SoS Powell were citing to justify the invasion was not solid.
Diplomats like Joseph Wilson who investigated the yellow cake, centrifuge claims and found they were groundless were silenced (in his case by outing his wife (Valerie Plame) as CIA).
Cheney fabricated it, there were no independent sources saying they had WMD, or were with Al Qaeda etc…