It was illegal. You learn the facts.
Bush Admin. sought information to tie Saddam to chemical weapons. There was no clear link although Yellow cake sales in nigeria were, according to a former Iraqi spy, said to be linked. Again he denied saying any of this a yr later.
This "evidence" confirmed by MI6, later accused of working directly for Blair who politicised the independance of their Security wing (much like Cheney did with the CIA), was then taken to the United Nations and then Congress.
Don't tell me to learn the facts, i know the facts. If you manufacture false information and then use that to convince the UN and congress that there is an "imminent threat" it is not their fault for believing it. It is your fault for lying.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
