Why would anyone fake evidence to start the Iraq War?

The faking of evidence is a fairly uncontroversial matter of record nowadays, and has been well documented by the various official enquiries into the war. Some of the best known examples, like the dodgy dossier (Iraq Dossier) the Niger uranium forgeries and Colin Powell's infamous UN speech (anthrax trucks anyone?) read more

Some of the fake evidence that led to Iraq II was supplied by domestic opposition groups opposed to Saddam from within Iraq. Their motives were fairly obvious. Most of it was created by MI6 and the CIA because thats what they were instructed to do so by their respective governments. read more

The US launched a war on Iraq on the basis of false and overstated intelligence, according to a scathing US senate intelligence committee report released today. Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who chaired the bipartisan committee, said CIA assessments that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and could make a nuclear weapon by the end of the decade were wrong. read more

The Iraq war wasn’t an innocent mistake, a venture undertaken on the basis of intelligence that turned out to be wrong. America invaded Iraq because the Bush administration wanted a war. The public justifications for the invasion were nothing but pretexts, and falsified pretexts at that. read more