Valencrimes: Selling the Iraq War

Happy Valencrimes Day! This year Grant wants to talk about a fraud perpetrated on a global scale, which in turn led to corruption, war crimes, and generally made everyone's life worse over the lat 17 years: the case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. For more than a year, the Bush administration pushed the most extreme interpretation of raw intelligence, without regard for its accuracy or reliability, to justify a war. Meanwhile, anyone presenting a correct assessment of the facts was attacked and deplatformed. 

Links!

• The Selling of the Iraq War: The First Casualty on Global Policy Forum
• Hubris: Selling the Iraq War
• H.J.Res. 114 (107th): Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002
• Ciaran's article on George Psalamanzar

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