Iraq-war justifications derived from policy-biased intelligence that framed flawed information

Evidence

Assessing the future course of violence and the best means of dealing with it can be flawed by bias-based social as well judgmental errors from uncertain information. The information on which judgments are made may be tainted by the policy biases of those gathering and interpreting it (March, 1982). For example, the justification for the second Iraq war was based on flawed and fabricated information that Iraq had at least the potential to build nuclear weapons and that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and was linked to al Qaeda. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 395