When President George W.Bush launched an invasion of Iraq,claiming that the country had weapons of mass destruction and was allied with Al-Qaeda,he and his team ignored evidence from intelligence agencies that neither claim was actually true.This error can be attributed to a process called.

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Groupthink is a phenomenon in which a group of individuals prioritize unanimity and conformity over critical analysis and decision-making. In the case of the invasion of Iraq, President Bush and his team may have succumbed to groupthink, ignoring contradictory evidence and focusing on their shared belief in the existence of weapons of mass destruction and Iraq's alliance with Al-Qaeda.