It was with this backdrop that the "Iraq has WMDs" campaign managed to get traction. If you learn history and pay attention to the events, you'll quickly understand that Saddam's antagonism and mockery of the whole UN institution, specially when they self-isolated, was an easy sell even with weak evidence.
Making this out to be a simple matter exclusively and bounded to the existence of WMDs is naive and outright ignorant.
- Saddam factually didn’t have WMD to use,
- If he had, they were not powerful anyway,
- Not a reason for groundbreaking safekeeping invasion,
- We all know it was a matter of petrol, not humanitarian causes.
I’m literally all ok with invasions caused by power struggles; I’m not ok with lying. Colin Powell lied and the UN Security Council validated,
…proving the UNSC is a shitbag, and irremediable, hopeless, handicapped pile of corrupt officials.