So there isn't a possibility of a miscalculation based on miscommunication with perhaps unknown talks with another power? Or is it only communication with Americans that cause such miscalculation?
The funny thing about the "phantom" WMDs in Iraq is that they weren't phantoms at all. They had used WMDs against their own people. They had known facilities for producing them and had been sanctioned for it in the past. They also refused to allow inspectors in to verify it one way or the other per their previous agreements with the safety council. And the intelligence community at Large believed they still had them since satellite imagery and informants implied that was the case. Turns out they had removed them, possibly very recently.
I never said the war accomplished it's goals. It just gets beyond ridiculous hearing the revisionist history about it in convenient sound-bites when anyone with a brain that partially functions knows it was more complicated than "bush lied people died". Why did so many Democrats vote to go to war then when they had the same intelligence the republicans did?
This. Also the war was largely justified on intelligence that showed a strong likelihood of Iraq continuing to produce said weapons. But the ultimate justification was refusal to agree with the terms of the UN security council agreements to allow independent investigators into the country, which Iraq continually refused to comply with.
