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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Richard Hall

Trump draws Pentagon into Bush-era Groundhog Day over Iran as he shuns intelligence to justify war

George W. Bush and his administration of neocons spent years building a spurious case for the war in Iraq.

They collated sketchy intelligence about supposedly hidden weapons of mass destruction, fed it to a pliant press, went through the motions of seeking United Nations resolutions and formed a ramshackle coalition of the willing before going to war.

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