I think it was completely logical to think that WMDs were in Saddam's Iraq.
Bush thought so, Clinton said so, and Bush said so. Past UN inspectors thought so. CIA analysts said so. Other nation's intelligence agencies said so.
Assuming they are not and were not it makes a whole lot of people wrong. Is that because the intelligence in general was wrong? Is it because this is precisely the nature of intelligence? Is it because Saddam was very clever? Is it because people were seeing what they expected to see? Is it because people lied? Did Bush lie to go to war? Did Clinton lie to bomb Iraq? Did the CIA lie to support both presidents?
I don't know the answers to these questions. I will probably never know.
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