Iraq's WMD Failure Still Shapes Trump-Era Foreign Policy

Showing 6 Weapons of Mass Destruction videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The false intelligence behind Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction program is still the cautionary example nearly every commentator here reaches for when arguing against new military entanglements. David Sacks pointed directly to CIA Director George Tenet's assessment to President Bush as the origin of what became America's most destructive forever war, arguing Tulsi Gabbard's appointment as Director of National Intelligence exists specifically to prevent a repeat of bad intelligence steering the country into an unnecessary conflict. Charlie Kirk extended the same lesson into a personal letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning that young conservatives increasingly question Israeli intelligence assessments given how badly Iraq's WMD claims and COVID-era guidance both turned out, urging a communications overhaul before conservative support eroded further. A separate historical account traced the decision itself back to Bush's post-9/11 conviction that Saddam Hussein's history of defying UN resolutions and antagonizing the United States left no room to wait for proof to fully materialize before acting. Candace Owens took the argument furthest, accusing Trump himself of abandoning the same America First skepticism toward foreign intervention that these earlier failures were supposed to have taught the movement.