Getting fooled by a forged letter when it could have been easily verified to have been fake.
You're not very good at correctly defining the issue.
The reason for that war was not "getting fooled by a forged letter". It was "believing someone had called the Zuma horrible names."
And as for the verification...how long did you lot spend trying to track down Terrence, when it was clearly stated from the outset that you just needed to torture someone who was in the 'moot till you saw the original letter, then provide that torture report?
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