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What is the most Successful Lie in History? (kbin.social)
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Whenever my mom says "Tell the truth you won't be in trouble." I would almost always end up telling the truth and i end up getting in trouble and she would talk to my dad and all kinds of things, what's the most successful Lie in History?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Though it's important to remember that the whole WMD thing came from British intelligence; Bush's fault was blindly trusting their intelligence or, perhaps more accurately, accepting our own intelligence's appraisal of "maybe" as enough confirmation.