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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Curveball and Nigerian Uranium deals were both at best very questionable sources. These were the two main points of evidence for war.
Other intelligence agencies would not verify their validity and in some cases openly called it into question.
The US pretty much ran a smear campaign on Hans Blix.
It was about as close to fabrication as you can get.
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Your confusing the public PR campaign with the information every Congressman and Senator had on their desk. The people who voted to go to war knew there were questions about some of the intelligence. I suspect there always is. What they had to determine is if the questions were large enough to out weigh the indicators which suggested there might be something. I imagine they also wieghed the cost of possibly being wrong either way.
Hans Blix's reports included reported delays whenever he asked to go somewhere which made it appear the Iraqis were hiding something. He also, reported that he couldn't find evidence of the disposal of some of their chemical weapons where they said they disposed of them.