It’s a pervasive myth that “U.S. President George W. Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and their staffs fabricated the evidence of weapons of mass destruction.” Stephen L. Carter delves into this with, “Why the Intelligence Failed in Iraq”.
But it’s a myth that unfortunately prevails.
Lest we forget, “even Hans Blix, the chief United Nations arms inspector before the war, believed that Saddam Hussein had hidden weapons of mass destruction.”
Here’s an ardent anti-American who works for an ardently anti-American organization…who believed the same information as the President and Prime Minister did.
It was a belief that was pervasive: “[t]he myth of the super-weapons, once it gained currency, could not be dispelled. Saddam’s penchant for secrecy only made matters worse”.
If a madman who had used weapons of mass destruction on his own people threatened that he had them and would be willing to use them again, you’d for damn sure believe it.
The collective power of the CIA, MI-6, and the UN believed it. The leaders did what they were supposed to: take their best intelligence and make a decision.
And you better damn believe that had Saddam Hussein shot a nuclear weapon at Israel or a neighboring country that you’d never hear the end of how much Bush and Blair failed by not going after this madman.
It’s easier just to blame Dubya and ignore the facts.
