I was scrolling through my twitter feed and came across tweets where some (not all) American progressives were quoting their intelligence community to demonstrate how bad the former President of the United States, Donald Trump, was. The irony of these tweets isn’t lost on anyone. I was a child when America declared its war on terror and subsequently invaded Afghanistan and Iraq. At the time, I barely knew anything about the global geo-politics, but since then I would like to believe that I have learnt a fair-few things and I believe that although America was justified in invading Afghanistan, it should have left soon after neutralising the people who were responsible for 9/11. On the other hand, I do not believe Invasion of Iraq was justified at all, I know some people would say hindsight is 20/20, but if one recalls, there were people even back in 2002, 2003 who opposed the invasion of Iraq and in fact took to the streets to register their dissent against this invasion.If you remember, America under the Presidency of George W. Bush made a case for invasion of Iraq citing intelligence that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction (WMD), since there were no WMDs found post invasion, many blamed the Bush administration for spinning the intelligence to persuade public opinion in favour of the war. However, on the 22 March 2019, almost 16 years after invasion of Iraq, an American journalist, Glenn Kessler in a Washington Post article titled “The Iraq War and WMDs: An intelligence failure or White House Spin?”, with regards to assertions by the Bush administration regarding Saddam’s nuclear capabilities concluded:“Statements by the president, vice president, secretary of state and the national security advisor regarding a possible Iraqi nuclear weapons program were generally substantiated by the intelligence community, but did not convey the substantial disagreements”Also, if you remember, on the 5 February 2003, the then U.S Secretary of States, Colin Powell, delivered a presentation to the United Nations and on slide 20 of that presentation there were drawn up graphics or visuals showing how Iraq had the capability of producing biological weapons using something called “Mobile Production Facilities For Biological Agents”, and in these imaginary drawings, a twelve wheeler truck was depicted carrying some water tanks, that according to Powell could carry biological agents. With regards to these assertions by the Bush administration, Kessler states in the same article:“Statements in the major speeches analyzed, as well as additional statements, regarding Iraq’s possession of biological agents, weapons, production capability and use of mobile biological laboratories were substantiated by intelligence information”In an overall conclusion Kessler points out that:“The intelligence community’s assessments on Iraq’s WMD stockpiles and programs turned out to be woefully wrong”This is just an example of the colossal failure of American Intelligence Community and its flawed intelligence that led to invasion of Iraq, followed by significant destruction of not only Iraq but that whole region, because one can argue that the power vacuum that was created by toppling Saddam, directly led to the rise of extremists’ groups in that country and we all know the chaos that these groups caused, including the genocide of Yazidis in Iraq.