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The Iraq War WMD Claims
The U.S. went to war based on intelligence about weapons that were never found — and a bipartisan Senate investigation concluded the case for war was built on evidence that didn't hold up.
In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq based substantially on claims that Saddam Hussein's government possessed weapons of mass destruction. No such weapons stockpiles were ever found, and multiple official investigations, including a bipartisan U.S. Senate inquiry, later concluded the intelligence supporting the claims was flawed and, in key respects, based on fabricated sources.
✕debunked
Quick facts
- →Secretary of State Colin Powell presented the case for Iraqi WMDs to the United Nations in February 2003, citing intelligence he later called a "blot" on his record after it proved inaccurate.
- →The Iraq Survey Group, the official post-invasion U.S. search team, concluded in its final 2004 report that Iraq had not possessed stockpiles of chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons at the time of the invasion.
- →The bipartisan Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's 2004 report found the intelligence community's key judgments were not supported by the underlying intelligence.
- →A key human intelligence source on Iraq's alleged biological weapons program, codenamed "Curveball," was later confirmed by his own handlers and himself to have fabricated his claims.
Entities on file
CIA (organization)
Central Intelligence Agency; alleged by some theories to have had a role in the assassination, without documentary proof.
Also appears in: Operation Ajax, Operation CHAOS, The October Surprise Theory, JFK assassination, MKUltra
→ possibly connected to death of → John F. Kennedy~speculative
→ employed to run MKUltra → Sidney Gottlieb✓documented
→ employed the officer who led → Kermit Roosevelt Jr.✓documented
→ ran, despite its own charter barring domestic operations → Operation CHAOS✓documented
→ produced the central intelligence assessments behind → Iraq War WMD claims✓documented
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Iraq War WMD claims (document)
Pre-2003 U.S. intelligence assessments claiming Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction; no such stockpiles were ever found.
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Colin Powell (person)
U.S. Secretary of State who presented WMD claims to the UN in 2003; later called the presentation a lasting "blot" on his record.
→ presented to the United Nations → Iraq War WMD claims✓documented
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