• CanadaPlus@futurology.today
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      1 year ago

      Lying is universal, and lying about the thing you attacked is trendy this century.

      I wonder if the decision makers in this case knew it was a lie from the start, of if their intelligence people were giving them what they wanted to find. Or maybe both, like the Iraqi WMDs.

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        1 year ago

        The intelligence agencies were never the problem with Iraqi WMDs. They said the weapons might exist, but they could not conclusively confirm it. The Bush Administration lied about it and said the intelligence agencies called it a certainty.

        But I digress, I get what you mean.