The Individual Vs. The State, An Unusual Case

[ErickTheRed]

You are responding to something Jester didn't say.
Iraq had chemical weapons and they used it on the Kurds. After that they have been destroying their weapons under supervision of the international community (that is how we know they destroyed them).
The 'reason' Bush and Blair gave us to invade Iraq was that the told us Saddam had WMDs at that moment, which was a lie.

I think this summary is missing the context that while Iraq had been destroying some WMD Saddam Hussein was also bluffing that he still had some.

Also I feel the press completely neglected its journalistic duty during all the reporting leading up to the war. The New York Times was pretty much directly printing information leaked by the government without any fact checking.