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Originally posted by Spanky
Pretty much. I think the conventional wisdom was so strong that there were WMDs that any evidence to the contrary was dismissed. Everyone overestimated Saddam's mental stability and intelligence. I should also point out, I think we still would have done to war if intelligence had discovered definitely there were not WMDs (although I have no idea how intelligence can prove a negative) but the administration would have focused on another excuse of the war.
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What do you think was the underlying reason for the war, then, if WMDs were a pretext?
