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No, what makes it worse is that there was a widespread international consensus amongst politicians, soldiers and diplomats who had experience of Iraq and the Middle East that an invasion and occupation carried grave risks and had the potential to descend into a humanitarian catastrophe and a political disaster. Those who criticise the war aren't being wise after the event because no conflict in the modern era was so heavily criticised as the Iraq war before it had even started, but the politicians were intent on a headlong rush to war. What bothers me though is not that politicians tell lies-that's part of their job-but that even after the lies have been exposed there are the weak minded and gullible who still cling to the vain hope that the politicians weren't selling them a bucketload of crap.
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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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