Reply #15: They assumed they were going to be greeted with roses, so [View All]

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They did not work up and implement Plan C - Plant the WMDs ourselves. Such a project would have required quite a bit of time to get things lined up before they went in, and they just didn't think it would matter, after they went in it was, and still remains, too chaotic to do it. Imagine for instance the problem of which of the Iraqis you trust to help you find the "evidence"? You can't do it on your own, because no one would believe it. Chalabi turned out to be a double agent, and any of the others could have sold the information to the rest of them for a whole lot of political capital in the new government.