Arguments Against Groupthink

According to study.com website (2015), a groupthink can simply be defined as an occurrence that gives a group of people a fault verdict or a conclusion a that a group has made that is an ineffective decision whereby it was reached just to appease the spirit of harmony among group members than allowing individuals to act independently and creatively. As alluded on, groupthink blocks individual creativity by ignoring alternatives allowing irrational actions to tale precedence. It happens most when individuals have similar background and the group is refusing external opinions. The result are that the decisions are flawed and they often come at a cost.

One example was the invasion of Iraq by President Bush and allied forces in 2003 to counter alleged weapons of mass distractions (WMD) that the regime of Saddam Hussein was said to possess. As has been public knowledge and a fact, after a thorough search in all of Iraq, such weapons failed to be uncovered putting in jeopardy serious allegations that have been levelled against the Saddam Hussein regime. To view this, it brought a close perspective to why in the first place the American decision makers where so convinced and confident that the Iraqi regime possessed WMD. The second question that may arise is why was President Bush so desperate to think it was an immediate threat posed by eventually turned false allegations of WMD. The last question is why the bush administration thought invasion was the only way to solve the Iraqi WMD issue. All this pointed to one thing when eventually the truth was found out. That thing is what I defined as groupthink when I introduced the essay.
The obvious blame lay on the intelligence failure among the American decision makers, but that intelligence failure was solely caused by