And the claims that they could be launched within 45 minutes? Or that theyhad restarted their nuclear programme, had been buying enriched uranium, etc etc?
The simple fact that Hussein's regime possessed some battlefield chemical weapons would never have been enough to go to war. It was only coupled with shameful lies about his intentions and capabilities along with the repeated suggestion that Iraq was connected to the 9/11 attacks that allowed that war to happen.
You and other soldiers were lied to by politicians, who saw fit to send serving men to fight and die for political expediency and outright deceit.
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