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'Weapons of mass destruction' then, 'Chinese aggression' now

REMEMBER the colossal US lie that Iraq had 'weapons of mass destruction' consisting of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, which made it necessary to invade that nation in 2003, which resulted in a million direct and indirect killings of human beings.

That the US propaganda machine was so powerful the lie was widely believed even by the most renowned US newspapers, such as the New York Times and Washington Post, which, however, would issue an apology in 2004 that they failed to fact-check the US government's fabrications?