So pervasive is the criticism of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and even more so of the policy decisions taken in its immediate aftermath, that little attempt is made to situate these developments in some kind of historical context that takes account of the events which preceded the Bush administration's decision to go to war. Of no aspect of these events is this more true than of the failure to find any serious trace of Iraq's programmes for the development of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, which it had been confidently predicted ahead of the invasion still existed in considerable quantities and with the capacity to be re-constituted fairly rapidly.
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