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>falsely claimed there were "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq during the American invasion in 2003

This was due to malice not ignorance/incompetence.



They did tell the admin that there was no WMDs. But Rumsfeld didn't want to hear it, and forced them to "find" it.

Almost killed the agency


Well in that case, the CIA is not merely stupid and incompetent, it's deliberately evil. How many innocent civilians were slaughtered in Iraq during the American occupation?


Evil and apparently experimenting with magic. Sounds like a recipe for a good time.


I mean yeah, that's the Americas in general since Europeans first put eyes on it. ~500 years of brutality and slaughter in pursuit of profit. We're gonna do it again in Venezuela and probably Denmark/Greenland. C'est la vie


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> Before the evil Europeans set their greedy eyes on the new world there was peace, love, and ecstasy every single day.

That's reading a lot into the other post.


“since Europeans first put eyes on it” seems to justify it pretty well.


"500 years of brutality and slaughter in pursuit of profit" no one said it was peaceful before




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