Turns out they could have saved themselves the effort. The declassified cabinet papers shows the little worm didn’t need any encouragement to go full warmonger
Gotta defend those WeSteRn VaLuEs
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> Despite warnings from the German Federal Intelligence Service and the British Secret Intelligence Service questioning the authenticity of the claims, the US and British governments utilized them to build a rationale for military action in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, including in the 2003 State of the Union address, where the US President George W. Bush said, “We know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs”, and US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations Security Council, which contained a computer generated image of a mobile biological weapons laboratory.
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Turns out they could have saved themselves the effort. The declassified cabinet papers shows the little worm didn’t need any encouragement to go full warmonger
Gotta defend those WeSteRn VaLuEs
> Despite warnings from the German Federal Intelligence Service and the British Secret Intelligence Service questioning the authenticity of the claims, the US and British governments utilized them to build a rationale for military action in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, including in the 2003 State of the Union address, where the US President George W. Bush said, “We know that Iraq, in the late 1990s, had several mobile biological weapons labs”, and US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation to the United Nations Security Council, which contained a computer generated image of a mobile biological weapons laboratory.
They *knew it was bullshit* beforehand, but wanted to go so much… Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curveball_(informant)?wprov=sfti1#