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Topic: weapons of mass destruction

Colin Powell, Donald Trump and QAnon Trump Supporters (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Colin Powell paved the way for Trump

Amanda Marcotte
George W. Bush; William Barr (AP/Salon)

Fake Mueller report: WMDs déjà vu

Amanda Marcotte
In this May 2, 2016 photo, writer-director Rob Reiner poses for a portrait in New York. Reiner has always had an affinity for the father-son story and has explored the theme and his own life in films like "Stand By Me" and "A Few Good Men," but none have come so close as "Being Charlie," loosely based on his son Nick Reiner's struggles with drugs. (Photo by Brian Ach/Invision/AP) (AP/Brian Ach)

Rob Reiner on Trump: "He's a con man"

Andrew O'Hehir

Mike Pence's WMD lie

Simon Maloy
Donald Rumseld (Credit: NBC News)

Trump's a "known unknown"

Scott Eric Kaufman
Dick and Liz Cheney (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Cheney's vile history lesson

Heather Digby Parton
(MSNBC)

Joanna Rothkopf
David Brooks (PBS)

David Brooks' Iraq apologia

Simon Maloy
(AP/Reuters/Charles Dharapak/Rebecca Cook/Yuri Gripas/Photo montage by Salon)

GOP's alarming Iraq amnesia

Joan Walsh
(MSNBC)

Hayes presses Miller

Joanna Rothkopf
Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and George W. Bush (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

Judith Miller's sad apologia

Simon Maloy
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney (Reuters/Jason Reed)

Republicans' Iraq ignorance

Luke Brinker
Ashton Carter (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

"A fan of blowing things up"

Simon Maloy
Rick Santorum (AP/Charlie Neibergall)

Rick Santorum, Iraq truther

Simon Maloy
(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Meet the Iraq War truthers

Simon Maloy
(AP/Charles Dharapak)

Bush was not right about Iraq

Simon Maloy
(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Ted Cruz's foreign policy mess

Simon Maloy
(AP/Matt York/Reuters/Jason Reed)

America's post-9/11 debacle

Robert Hennelly
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News Desk, Noga Tarnopolsky
Free Syrian Army fighters sit behind their anti-aircraft weapon in Aleppo, Syria, Friday February 8, 2013. (AP/Abdullah Al-yassin)

Syria is not Iraq

Aaron David Miller

WMD charge, explained

Natasha Lennard