• faceless@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    the us claimed that Iraq had wmds, but it was later revealed Iraq has no usable wmds (they had some sarin that expired in the 70s) and the us had a congressional hearing where the armed services confirmed that they considered the unusable wmds as active wmds, even though they could not be used. it was not a conspiracy later proven true like the Tonkin incident, but just using the vague definition of WMD (there is no offical one delcared by the UN) to the army’s advantage

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      11 months ago

      Thanks! I remember vaguely. I didn’t understand the details back then but I remember that everyone knew it’s bs already back then. I put “/s” for a reason under my first comment