Interesting article, those do appear to be mistakes today, although who is to say that other serious problems would not have come about from keeping the army and current civil government in place.

However, if you are going to put stock in that, you need to put stock in this:

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[Geoff Hoon] still does not understand why the [WMD] intelligence proved to be false. "I've been present at a number of meetings where the intelligence community was fixed, and looked in the eye and asked are you absolutely sure about this? And the answer came back 'Yes, absolutely sure'."

Mr Hoon added: "I saw intelligence from the first time I came into office, in May 1999 - w...

Interesting article, those do appear to be mistakes today, although who is to say that other serious problems would not have come about from keeping the army and current civil government in place.

However, if you are going to put stock in that, you need to put stock in this:

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[Geoff Hoon] still does not understand why the [WMD] intelligence proved to be false. "I've been present at a number of meetings where the intelligence community was fixed, and looked in the eye and asked are you absolutely sure about this? And the answer came back 'Yes, absolutely sure'."

Mr Hoon added: "I saw intelligence from the first time I came into office, in May 1999 - week in, week out - that said Saddam had weapons of mass destruction ... I have real difficulty in understanding why it was, over such a long period of time, we were told this and, moreover, why we acted upon it."
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