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US debate over whether to bomb Iran recalls anguish of Iraq war

Shadow of intelligence debacle two decades ago hangs over Donald Trump as he considers joining Israeli attacks

In 2016, Donald Trump called the invasion of Iraq a “big fat mistake”, the result of a deliberate act of deception by US intelligence.

“They lied!” he said during a Republican primary debate in February that year. “They said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none. And they knew there were none.”

Now Trump is in the White House, weighing military intervention in a war that has eerie parallels with Operation Iraqi Freedom — a campaign he said was a waste of $2tn.

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