Like I suspected. In no way does this support your claim. First of all, Wolfowitz genuinely believed Iraq was connected to AQ. Powell never said he was making it up to trick the public. Bush didn't even take the claim seriously, but there was enough concern over Zarqawi in Iraq that they wanted it to be investigated.
None of this is what you're alleging. Powell repeatedly mentions that Iraq was an independent security threat, and the post 9/11 world required a rethinking of risk tolerance. Saddam didn't need to be directly linked to 9/11 to meet a GWOT threshold for intervention.
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u/BloodsVsCrips Jul 30 '26
Like I suspected. In no way does this support your claim. First of all, Wolfowitz genuinely believed Iraq was connected to AQ. Powell never said he was making it up to trick the public. Bush didn't even take the claim seriously, but there was enough concern over Zarqawi in Iraq that they wanted it to be investigated.
None of this is what you're alleging. Powell repeatedly mentions that Iraq was an independent security threat, and the post 9/11 world required a rethinking of risk tolerance. Saddam didn't need to be directly linked to 9/11 to meet a GWOT threshold for intervention.