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The faulty evidence and shifting rationales became the focal point for critics of the war, who charge that the Bush Administration purposely fabricated evidence to justify an invasion it long planned to launch.
These claims of false or exaggerated evidence and rhetoric (Yellowcake forgery, Downing Street memo) have largely been substantiated.
Critics have further charged that, in the absence of evidence that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States, the invasion was a mistake, an assertion that 58% of Americans agreed with as of May 2007.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan echoed this assessment in September 2004 when he called the war illegal.
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Counting all civilians, military, contractors, insurgents, and non-Iraqi civilians, at least 70,000; to as many as 655,000+ total excess deaths due to the war
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So if the UK and US went to war on prefabricated information and even the UN calls it illegal, then maybe it was because if it wasn't, I think the UK would have gone tame on Kofi Annan for making such slanderous remarks.
I just feel that there was another agenda here and getting rid of Saddam fitted in with it. I may be wrong though, just my opinion.