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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And it was never supposed to be nukes right? It was like chemical weapons or something.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 days ago

Bush Jr did at one point say something like "... the smoking gun, which could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."

Think it was a SOTU. 02?

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

Said they bought yellow cake uranium I think.

Chappelle Show taught me that

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

that was a back-peddle made by the Murdoch machine nearly a decade later, where they tried to claim some old expired chemical weapons (that the United States gave to Saddam in like the 'eighties) were in fact the fabled WMDs.