On both sides of the Atlantic, opposition politicians, commentators, anti-war activists and even military men claim to have been conned, misled or downright duped by Bush and Blairs pre-war claims. There is something distinctly disingenuous in all this dupe-talk. Weapons and intelligence experts were picking holes in Britain and Americas evidence long before the war kicked off. In the USA, there were newspaper headlines like Evidence on Iraq challenged and Doubts over administrations case as far back as September 2002 (2). Britains main dossier of evidence was ridiculed six weeks before the war started, for having been plagiarised from a students 12-year-old PhD thesis (3). Who could possibly be duped by such dopey claims?
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