The WMD casus belli was chosen for bureaucratic consensus, not evidence

Evidence

Deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz was one of the hawkish architects of the Iraq war. In an uncharacteristically frank interview with Vanity Fair, he explained that weapons of mass destruction were selected as the major justification for going to war with Iraq for bureaucratic reasons: … “The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the US government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2314 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Iraq WMD rationale was chosen for bureaucratic consensus, not evidence. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2314; Absence of evidence for WMDs did not deter advocates of invading Iraq — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2311

Broader Connections

• The Iraq WMD rationale was chosen for bureaucratic consensus, not evidence. #corroborates (1.00) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2314