When President George W. Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the justification was presented as unambiguous. Saddam Hussein, Americans were told, possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed an imminent threat. The claim proved false. By 2004, the United States was forced to concede that no such weapons existed, and the central pretext for war collapsed.
At the time, much of the left opposed the invasion—and with hindsight, they were right to do so. Yet their opposition often rested on its own certainties that were no less unfounded. Iraq, they insisted, was a war for oil, a crude imperial venture masked as national security. That conspiracy never materialized. American oil companies did not seize Iraqi fields. The war was not waged for petroleum spoils. Both sides, in different ways, acted on narratives that later proved illusory.
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