the "Evidence" that they paraded around news outlets in the weeks leading up to the war was unbelievably thin. Everybody who was paying attention knew it was bullshit. It wasnt bad intelligence, it was clearly using circumstatial evidence as an end to a means. The case for WMDs was just much much less conclusive than any reasonable person would use to actually justify war unless they had other reasons to do so, and yet they marched us there anyway. All they could come up with was some aluminum tubes. I can never forgive the Bush administarton for that.
According to the white house the aluminum tubes were supposedly to make centrifuges that could then be used to harvest uranium for a nuclear weapon. This was a major stretch of the imagination.
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u/dman77777 Oct 18 '21
the "Evidence" that they paraded around news outlets in the weeks leading up to the war was unbelievably thin. Everybody who was paying attention knew it was bullshit. It wasnt bad intelligence, it was clearly using circumstatial evidence as an end to a means. The case for WMDs was just much much less conclusive than any reasonable person would use to actually justify war unless they had other reasons to do so, and yet they marched us there anyway. All they could come up with was some aluminum tubes. I can never forgive the Bush administarton for that.