can you really prove that the US leadership wasn’t so deluded that they thought that Iraq genuinely didn’t have WMD?
I can’t be fucked to look up something that hasn’t been relevant for over ten years, but the answer to this question is definitely yes. Do some research and it shouldn’t be hard to find.
I had a dude who tried to get me fired by stealing client data and trying to frame it on me. He confessed to someone he was so fucking sure would just take that in stride and not go to management with that.
I also found out that he thought that would work because he thought I was on a final write up for another thing that he tried to pin on me before that. But his whole claim there made no fucking sense and was dismissed within minutes, so nothing ever ever came of it. He just assumed it had worked without trying to confirm anything.