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47. It was also around that time he made a Soviet-grade historical rewrite...

Sun Jun 22, 2025, 03:22 PM

Jun 2025

...and the media briefly went "umm" then fell in line.

What did he do? He started claiming Saddam had not allowed inspectors in (and that was why we couldn't find his WMDs).

I had to go around: "Do you remember Hans Blix? Do you remember why you remember Hans Blix (aside from his name)? Why he was in the news in the first place? Because he was leading the WMD inspector teams IN IRAQ! Don't you remember the cartoons painting him as Inspector Clouseau leading the Keystone Kops? Because they were IN IRAQ and not finding WMDs!"

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