answer the following question from a realist perpsective: How important was intelligence to the outcome of the case study This passage would give you an idea about the topic: `In 2003, the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, confidently asserted that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), and that they could be launched within 45 minutes. On the face of it, and with hindsight, this comment, and the policy decision to invade Iraq, was based on incorrect intelligence. In reality, intelligence (or at least this intelligence) was not driving policy. The failure by UN Weapons Inspectors to verify whether or not Saddam Hussein had destroyed his stockpile of WMD, combined with the geopolitical reality of the need to support the US, decided British policy in the months leading to the invasion of Iraq. The 45-minute claim merely supported the point. Intelligence supporting policy – In this situation, intelligence was used to support policy, not to drive it. This is a political reality`.
