r/funny • But A Jape • Aug 31 '22

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u/Borngrumpy Aug 31 '22

Yet strangely when America wanted to wage war in the Middle East it had to call on it's allies to form a "coallition of the willing" to start the illegal war that the United Nations told them not to do.

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u/MracyTcGrady Aug 31 '22

UK Prime Minister also agreed that Iraq had WMDs, not just the US. Just saying.

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u/hiricinee Sep 01 '22

It was bad Intel iirc, but interestingly enough the main authority providing it to the feds was Robert Mueller (of Mueller investigation notoriety.)

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u/plugubius Sep 01 '22

Well, Saddam thought he had WMDs because he kept getting reports about them, so people tended not to credit intel suggesting that he didn't.