Reddit reviews Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet
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There's a great book written about exactly this: Rise of the Vulcans. Basically, all the neocons who wanted to take out Saddam during the first gulf war and got shut down by moderate conservatives who knew better, they made it their life goal to get back into the White House and make it happen.
>before the invasion, there were numerous reports from domestic security agencies that failed to bring up any evidence of WMD along
I have no idea who you think you are talking about but this simply isn't the case. Objections were occasionally voiced to this or that piece of evidence, but no one was saying there were not WMD.
>there was no one in the U.S government top branches who also had access to these reports who seriously believed there were WMD being developed or produced in Iraq.
again, this is completely false. The top administration officials absolutely believed that there were WMDs.
>and still doesn't matter to the government whether they're supporting a dictator or not if it meets their geopolitical goals. wh
the geopolitical goal in question was to replace the nastiest dictator in the middle east with an arabic democracy to drain the swamp of terrorism. there are literally dozens of books about the bush administration that discuss these things, you should try reading some of them.
15 years later, Saddam is still dead, and Iraq is the only arab democracy, and those are the two things the war was fought for, somehting which is clear to anyone who has bothered to read about the bush administration. Anyone claiming a lack of clarity simply hasn't bothered to do even the most basic research on the subject. Additional research makes it clear that the war resulted in fewer deaths than Saddam's regime was killing. Anyone repeating the much debunked claim that the administration lied is, at this point, willfully spreading ignorance.
These questions were once debatable, but that time is long passed. they've entered the realm of verifiable history, and this piece seems to be written by someone trapped in 2006.