10.12759/HSR.38.2013.1.286-307
Van Der Heide, Liesbeth
Liesbeth
Van Der Heide
Cherry-Picked Intelligence: The Weapons of Mass Destruction Dispositive as a Legitimation for National Security in the Post 9/11 Age
Geheimdienste mit Scheuklappen: das Dispositiv der Massenvernichtungswaffen als Legitimation für Nationale Sicherheit nach 9/11
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
2013
Irak
Krieg
Massenvernichtungswaffe
Legitimation
21. Jahrhundert
nationale Sicherheit
Geheimdienst
USA
militärische Intervention
Invasion
Bush, G.
Terrorismusbekämpfung
Sicherheit
Theorie
Nahost
Diskurs
CIA
internationale Politik
internationale Sicherheit
Asien
arabische Länder
Iraq
war
weapon of mass destruction
legitimation
twenty-first century
national security
secret service
United States of America
military intervention
invasion
Bush, G.
fight against terrorism
security
theory
Middle East
discourse
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
international politics
international security
Asia
Arab countries
2013
en
https://www.gesis.org/en/hsr/archive/2013/381-security-and-conspiracy/
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Historical Social Research, 38(1), 286-307
The Claim that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) led to the invasion of frag in 2003 by the US army. For the George W. Bush administration, the likely presence of WMD in Iraq was the major justification for boing to war. However, Bush' opponents suspected he used the WMD-dispositive as a legitimation for an invasion that was already set in motion for different reasons. The Iraq invasion and the underlying ideas about the presence of WMD thus provide a tangible case for the analysis of theories of conspiracy and security. The development of the WMD-dispositive will be contextualized using the toolkit of securitization theory. The article explores the notions of security and conspiracy that were used to build the dispositive and shows how it ultimately failed and turned into a counter-narrative in which the Bush administration itself became the Great Conspirator.
Historical Social Research Vol. 38, No. 1 (2013)