False intell?
Didn't the entire world, including the UK, believe Iraq have WMDs? (even Al Gore, who went on a bloodthirsty rant, just before 9-11, ridiculing Bush 1 and the newly elected Bush 2 for ignored Iraq at great threat to world safety?)
The intell was the intell of the time, believed by virtually all.
Lets not drop to low, hippy-dippy, IQ levels.
Simple fact is that the USA and Great Britain have really fucked-up governments, but they still are two of the best on the planet. All of them have serious problems.
Move the United Nations headquarters to Gaza Strip. All in favor say AH! (or barely refurbish Alcatraz and have them out there.)
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On a serious note. We learn a great deal by studying, and cutting up the events of other countries, their successes and mistakes. Leaving them alone, 'staying out" of them, is leaving learning and thinking and history alone.
Hock
Two nights ago one of "our guys" heard a noise, middle of the night in his yard. He snatched up his pistol and looked around from inside the house. A man with a screwdriver was working on the spare, bedroom window to get inside. Crazy or not, he went out the front door, ran around the house and charged the man, pistol up and out.
The man was a big black guy, armed with a screw driver and took off running, straight away whe he saw the gun. Running the possibilities, a lot could have gone wrong or right.