" He added, "I remember when I was sitting back listening about Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, how everybody was 100% certain that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
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Much of the case for biological weapons was that they were unusually cheap weapons of mass destruction — and access to cheap weapons of mass destruction is mostly bad for states.
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Because God forbid if something happens, if there is a direct attack using the weapons of mass destruction -- if they get weapons of mass destruction -- it may have a devastating ramifications.
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Donald Rumsfeld: We know they have weapons of mass destruction.
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One, you cannot provide weapons of mass destruction in space.
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We're talking about weapons of mass destruction that kill people.
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" Then, in true Trump style, the President added: "I remember when I was sitting back listening about Iraq, weapons of mass destruction, how everybody was 100% certain that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
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It ended up being there were no weapons of mass destruction.
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Syria obviously maintained and built its weapons of mass destruction stockpiles.
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They said there were weapons of mass destruction; there were none.
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And he'll have weapons of mass destruction, which Saddam didn't have.
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But the North has never stopped developing weapons of mass destruction.
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Iran's ballistic missile or weapons of mass destruction programs, or 2.
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"Cyber exploits offer stunning comparisons to weapons of mass destruction," he said.
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How everybody was 100% sure that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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Mike Pence in 2004: "Weapons of mass destruction have been found." pic.twitter.
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The intelligence community miscalculated grievously about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Chemical weapons are awful, but are not truly weapons of mass destruction.
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His experience fighting the spread of weapons of mass destruction is needed.
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How everybody was 100 percent sure that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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Maryland National Guard's 32nd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team in training.
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It hadn't invaded Iraq under the false pretext of weapons of mass destruction.
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Of course, the banning weapons of mass destruction is not the sole solution.
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Compared to other weapons of mass destruction, engineered pathogens are less resource-intensive.
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If the group obtains other weapons of mass destruction, it will use them.
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But on top of everything else they had no weapons of mass destruction.
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George W. Bush invaded Iraq to remove its – ultimately nonexistent – weapons of mass destruction.
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The route may run through an office established to counter weapons of mass destruction.
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And, frankly, if there weren't weapons of mass destruction, we should never have gone.
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A growing anti-nuclear movement cheered the departure of American weapons of mass destruction.
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And the reason is, look, everyone wants to secure loose weapons of mass destruction.
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Too much weight was indeed given to patchy intelligence about weapons of mass destruction.
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The multilateral treaty bans countries from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit.
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He staked his considerable credibility on Saddam Hussein's Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.
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Mr. Rahami was charged with several crimes, including use of weapons of mass destruction.
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No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion.
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Now it was his group that said it, there were weapons of mass destruction.
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We still haven't found the weapons of mass destruction and everybody cares about this!
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A friend asked me how the search for weapons of mass destruction was going.
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Some is designed to halt the spread of narcotics and weapons of mass destruction.
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By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.
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He possessed no weapons of mass destruction and had no role in 9/85033.
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That means it can inflict tremendous damage without resorting to weapons of mass destruction.
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They are weapons of mass destruction, for sale to any nut with a credit card.
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He commanded the US Army's Primary Flight School and a Weapons of Mass Destruction Unit.
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Meanwhile, the Bush administration's claim that Hussein had amassed weapons of mass destruction was collapsing.
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Even with weapons of mass destruction, Iran cannot simply blackmail Israel to achieve its goals.
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President George W. Bush convinced the country that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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It has given Iran and North Korea cover for pursuing weapons of mass destruction programs.
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Libya's Moammar Gadhafi was overthrown and killed in 2011 after renouncing weapons of mass destruction.
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Mr. Blair supported the Bush administration's assertions that Mr. Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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This is why the Bush-era term "weapons of mass destruction" never made any sense.
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It had laudable elements, including arms reductions and a ban on weapons of mass destruction.
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Because you also see the horror of these weapons of mass destruction, it's so overwhelming.
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We know that there were no weapons of mass destruction threatening our peace and security.
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I think concluding the destruction of the weapons of mass destruction themselves will be important.
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"Everybody was 100 percent sure that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction," Mr. Trump said.
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They had to know the Syrians were using prohibited weapons of mass destruction against people.
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Will it include short- and long-range ballistic missiles and other weapons of mass destruction?
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When U.S. troops moved into Iraq, they found no evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
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Like, I believed Jussie Smollett was staged or [weapons of mass destruction in Iraq] were staged.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," it read.
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The GOP wants us to think that by spreading weapons of mass destruction, we'll be safer.
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The Outer Space Treaty's primary goal is to keep weapons of mass destruction out of space.
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Sanctions will remain until North Korea completely and verifiably eliminates its weapons of mass destruction programs.
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WARREN BUFFETT: Well, I think the number one problem of mankind is weapons of mass destruction.
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A permanent, verifiable termination of Pyongyang's weapons of mass destruction programs would be the gold standard.
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The meeting is officially being described as dealing with the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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But scientists were then marching against the use of science to build weapons of mass destruction.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," Trump said.
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President George W. Bush said there was solid evidence of weapons of mass destruction being in Iraq.
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Of course, that gives Kim and the Kim regime more time to develop weapons of mass destruction.
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Tests of strength during the Cold War era hinged on the development of weapons of mass destruction.
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The final CIA report came out in late September 22010: Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
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That may be a dubious claim, as was the one about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.
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Saddam Hussein's mythical (but no less indispensable!) weapons of mass destruction had an excellent Ivy League pedigree.
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He blamed the Bush administration's false claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction on the intelligence community.
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Kim wants to see sanctions eased without losing the strategic benefits of his weapons of mass destruction.
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Some Democrats accused President George W. Bush of lying about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. Sen.
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Kim sought to see sanctions eased without losing the strategic benefits of his weapons of mass destruction.
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I do not believe that weapons of mass destruction like the AR-15 believe in civilian hands.
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Chemical weapons of mass destruction are now in every city nationwide in the form of opioid drugs.
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It made sense to secure aeroplanes, since they themselves have been used as weapons of mass destruction.
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Seventy-five years ago, our nation embarked on the Manhattan Project to create weapons of mass destruction.
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In place of serious dialogue, Russia and the United States plan more dangerous weapons of mass destruction.
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The Obama Administration too came in for criticism over use of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction.
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Will it account for all its weapons of mass destruction and missile programs in a verifiable way?
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Ortagus said Washington's goal remained the complete elimination of all of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction.
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It will also home in on the Special Operations Command's mission of countering weapons of mass destruction.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction," the statement said.
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He retired in 2008 as a chief of the CIA counterterrorism unit tracking weapons of mass destruction.
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Vibrant democracies are less likely to produce terrorists, spread weapons of mass destruction or otherwise act aggressively.
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Finally, how could a "No First Use" policy deter the use of other weapons of mass destruction?
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the statement read.
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He said the Iraq war was a disaster which was sold by lies about weapons of mass destruction.
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Years later, the Bush administration presented evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to justify that war.
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Pompeo said sanctions will remain in place until Pyongyang "completely and verifiably" eliminates all weapons of mass destruction.
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He said sanctions will remain in place until Pyongyang "completely and verifiably" eliminates all weapons of mass destruction.
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However, "only in America" are weapons of mass destruction readily available in stores, online and in gun shows.
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"I remember when I was sitting back listening about Iraq, weapons of mass destruction," Trump said in July.
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And if you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster, and they were wrong.
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The US and South Korea reportedly trained to 'infiltrate' North Korea and remove its weapons of mass destruction.
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"You're going to have issues with loose WMD," said Kazianis, using the acronym for weapons of mass destruction.
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Less than a third of the nearly 5,000 respondents reported feeling less concerned about weapons of mass destruction.
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Steve Trevor has stolen a piece of intelligence that a German general is developing weapons of mass destruction.
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But conservatives who had seen the correction were even more convinced that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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Rahami faces several federal charges, including using weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use.
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Johnson will join the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit aimed at preventing attacks with weapons of mass destruction.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," his transition team said.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," he told the Post.
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Any agreement must prevent Iran from Obtaining and employing weapons of mass destruction and subject to congressional scrutiny.
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No. The worst-case scenario is losing an American city to terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction.
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It consistently breached international norms, committing human rights abuses, funding terrorist groups, and proliferating weapons of mass destruction.
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No. The worst case scenario is losing an American city to terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction.
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This move will confirm, finally, that the use of weapons of mass destruction in the battlefield is survivable.
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The party that told us Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction won't push back against a President's lies.
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Instead, the U.S. should attempt to co-opt former regime elements with access to weapons of mass destruction.
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"[Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein] abandoned weapons of mass destruction — everyone remembers how he ended up," Putin added.
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It consistently breached international norms, committing human rights abuses, funding terrorist groups and proliferating weapons of mass destruction.
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Mr. Jones was particularly galled by Vice President Dick Cheney's statements that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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Short-staffing and outdated technology at Canada's borders could be helping groups abroad build weapons of mass destruction.
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Kim knows that having weapons of mass destruction means a U.S. invasion is almost completely out of the question.
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The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans weapons of mass destruction in outer space but is silent on conventional arms.
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But members of that treaty only agree not to station nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction in space.
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Such cooperation does not violate any international laws, nor does it involve the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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"I do not believe that weapons of mass destruction like the AR-15 belong in civilian hands," she said.
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Now, officials in the Russian Orthodox Church are looking to stop the practice of blessing weapons of mass destruction.
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The irreparable damage done to the environment via weapons of mass destruction signals a shift in human history, i.e.
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She puts a face — a badly damaged face, covered with prosthetic plates — on the war's weapons of mass destruction.
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He played guitar in a band called Weapons of Mass Destruction and briefly sold equipment at a music shop.
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If you listen to them, weapons of mass destruction were all over the place, but they were not there.
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Kim, experts say, wants to see sanctions eased without losing the strategic benefits of his weapons of mass destruction.
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The "weapons of mass destruction" term itself is broad and can include homemade bombs, according to reporter Paula Reid.
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It wants the freedom to build weapons of mass destruction it can use against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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North Korea relies heavily on this network to directly support its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.
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The goal was to eliminate an aggressive dictatorship that had attacked its neighbors and developed weapons of mass destruction.
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That attack itself – the first attack using weapons of mass destruction on NATO soil – calls for a significant response.
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The 2003 invasion of Iraq was pitched as a means of forestalling Iraqi use of weapons of mass destruction.
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To initiate a launch of weapons of mass destruction, it requires the approval of the National Command Authority (NCA).
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He will secretly try and solidify, or even grow, the North Korean program of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
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Deprived of legitimacy at home, the Iranian regime sought to forcibly gain recognition by seeking weapons of mass destruction.
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Mr. El Bahnasawy pleaded guilty in October 2016 to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and other charges.
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He is charged with eight counts of using weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use.
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Federal prosecutors charged serial pipe bomber Cesar Sayoc with various offenses relating to explosives and weapons of mass destruction.
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Hardly anyone now contends Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or any connection to 220006/2202 or al-Qaeda.
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It is mostly a criminal thug operation that trades in weapons of mass destruction, aids terrorists, and kidnaps people.
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"Saddam turned philosophical when asked how America got it so wrong about weapons of mass destruction," Mr. Nixon writes.
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Saddam did not see himself as unbalanced, and he knew that he did not have weapons of mass destruction.
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" The report added, "the threat of state and nonstate use of weapons of mass destruction will continue to grow.
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Weapons of mass destruction were the stated justification, but they were never the real reason, nor was bad intelligence.
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Option 1: A full U.S. military assault on North Korea to rid the world of Kim's weapons of mass destruction.
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Money is easily found for sophisticated weapons whose destructive power is comparable to that of the weapons of mass destruction.
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He responded by mocking them for being wrong before the invasion of Iraq in 2003 about weapons of mass destruction.
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He also helped create the Proliferation Security Initiative, an agreement to interdict shipments of materials for weapons of mass destruction.
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He also questioned the spooks' credibility: "These are the same people who said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction".
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But the public discussion over the opioid epidemic has not to date been about opioids becoming weapons of mass destruction.
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But there was also a healthy streak of the horrors of war, especially war fought with weapons of mass destruction.
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He's pushing the U.N. Security Council to punish North Korea for developing weapons of mass destruction that violate U.N. resolutions.
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I was never a fan of Colin Powell after his weak understanding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq = disaster.
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Kim wants to see sanctions eased or lifted — but without losing the strategic benefits of his weapons of mass destruction.
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In 2003, the United States made an agreement with Libya's Moammar Gadhafi to eliminate his weapons of mass destruction program.
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Facts are facts and this much we know: In America, access to weapons of mass destruction elicits terror too frequently.
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Under federal law, the non-fatal use of weapons of mass destruction carries a maximum penalty of life in prison.
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Sayoc was indicted on Friday on charges of using weapons of mass destruction with intent of killing or injuring individuals.
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And they see what the Trump administration is doing in Venezuela, which has no powerful deterrent weapons of mass destruction.
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As an example, the Obama NSC included cybersecurity, countering weapons of mass destruction and countering terrorism as key functional areas.
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But they'd also likely go even deeper into North Korea in order to deal with loose weapons of mass destruction.
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It had rubber-stamped phony intelligence about Saddam Hussein's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, enabling the catastrophic war in Iraq.
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"The principal reason for invading Iraq, that Saddam had [weapons of mass destruction], was wrong," McCain wrote in his memoir.
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They are believed to have transferred or acquired sensitive technology that could contribute to development of weapons of mass destruction.
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In 2003, another Republican administration facing a tough re-election made a case for Iraq having weapons of mass destruction.
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We also face the threat of these groups obtaining weapons of mass destruction, and preventing that must be a priority.
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"They carried out a weapons-of-mass destruction attack in England," Malcolm Nance, a longtime intelligence analyst, told VICE News.
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Existing federal law specifies the use of weapons of mass destruction as a crime that carries the possible death penalty.
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The Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were no more than a bit of improvised sham, a con man's counterfeit goods.
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But he said the agencies had learned from their failures, notably their declaration that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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"Wuco works in the State Department&aposs arms control bureau to "control the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction.
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The next two were protecting jobs of American workers (71%), and preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction (453%).
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Wildfires exacerbated by human-driven climate change are bad enough without our species escalating them with weapons of mass destruction.
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Jarrett William Smith, 24, was charged with one count of distributing information related to explosives and weapons of mass destruction.
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S.-led invasion of Iraq was motivated by concerns that the Iraqi regime continued to hold weapons of mass destruction.
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Kim's repression of his people, terrorist activities, and pursuit of WMD's [weapons of mass destruction] all warrant the fullest scrutiny.
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A freeze on North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and missile programs is also likely to be on the agenda.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," his transition team said in a statement.
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He pleaded guilty last month to 65 felony counts, including using weapons of mass destruction in an attempted domestic terrorist attack.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the transition team said in a statement.
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Trump accused George W. Bush of lying about weapons of mass destruction and of failing to prevent the September 11th attacks.
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There were genuine concerns about more mass casualty attacks, weapons of mass destruction and even threats to the continuity of government.
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There are three kinds of attack targets: nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, military-industrial facilities, or leaders and hideouts.
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In this role, Roberts will "prevent, protect against, and respond to weapons of mass destruction threats," according to the DOD website.
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The Trump administration is reportedly rolling back post-9/11 security programs aimed at preventing terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction.
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In 2008, he took a job as the deputy director of a commission studying the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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"The assault weapons ban is a ban against domestic weapons of mass destruction, because that's exactly what they are," Higgins said.
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Then they go in there, they searched high and dry, they looked all over, there were no weapons of mass destruction.
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Some of these risks sound like science fiction, but so did weapons of mass destruction and climate change 100 years ago.
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Mr. Kim, for his part, appears more interested in developing his country's economy than in developing more weapons of mass destruction.
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This internal dynamic of the Korean Peninsula compels Pyongyang to continue to threaten war and perfect its weapons of mass destruction.
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It was a period marked by meaningless deaths and falsehoods (namely that Iraq had a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction).
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Its member states coordinate export licensing to curb the spread of long-range missiles that can deliver weapons of mass destruction.
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In 2002, Bush administration officials distorted intelligence to claim, falsely, that the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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At the time, Hussein was suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction, but that later proved not to be the case.
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Separately, the 2002 AUMF in Iraq cited the threat posed by Saddam Hussein and the existence of weapons of mass destruction.
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"Of course," he said, comparing Neon to how nuclear technology generates electricity while also being used for weapons of mass destruction.
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The sanctions also target three general sales agents of Mahan Air over its alleged role in proliferating weapons of mass destruction.
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He has over a decade of experience in planning for weapons of mass destruction response for local, state and federal agencies.
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As with previous reports, the top-ranking global risk in terms of impact was the use of weapons of mass destruction.
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"It is crucial that we fine tune the stability and global security and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction," Putin said.
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" In a statement, his transition office scoffed, "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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In a world with weapons of mass destruction, the danger of conflicts escalating into a civilization-ending horror is very real.
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That forced government experts, reflexively cautious after overestimating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction 14 years ago, back to the drawing board.
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The results were stunning: Staunch conservatives who saw the correction became more likely to believe Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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He tricked the conservative commentator into referring to weapons of mass destruction (or WMDs) as "BLTS" (aka bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches).
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the transition said in a terse, unsigned statement.
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Hours later his government lightened the mood by rolling out an online naming contest for the shiny new weapons of mass destruction.
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In addition to widespread surveillance around the world, the US intelligence community deals with cybersecurity threats, weapons of mass destruction, and counterterrorism.
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Bush administration officials routinely claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and would use them against America if we didn't act.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," Trump's transition team said in a weekend statement.
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He also said that Blair's government's judgments about the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were "presented with unjustified certainty".
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There was a narrative about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction, and that narrative bled into the interpretation of the facts.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the transition team said in a terse statement.
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Colin Powell to convince the American people that Saddam had stockpiled "weapons of mass destruction" in secret bunkers hidden in the desert.
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Note: There weren't declarations around the threat of weapons of mass destruction, spreading democracy or the need to remove a brutal dictator.
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Damningly, his inquiry determined that the evidence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was presented with a certainty that was "not justified".
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"I think it would be foolhardy for us to devote all of our resources to getting weapons of mass destruction," he said.
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The Bush administration's central justification for the war, begun in March 19893, was the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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He added that he wants any deal between Trump and Kim to address all weapons of mass destruction and midrange ballistic missiles.
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Simply ask him to tell what ports to send ships or airports to send planes to collect these weapons of mass destruction.
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S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to the United Nations in 2003 about U.S. intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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He later stepped back from those remarks, saying he didn't know if Bush had lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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In Iraq, it was the post-9/11 conviction that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was cooperating with terrorists.
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And I said don't go in because if you dest — now, I didn't know that they didn't have weapons of mass destruction.
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Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested in Linden, N.J., two days later and charged with multiple crimes, including using weapons of mass destruction.
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Choi is the first person charged under Australia's Weapons of Mass Destruction Act and could face a maximum 10-year prison sentence.
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Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Qaeda, used to justify the invasion, proved to be nonexistent.
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Trump "is prepared to ensure a DPRK free of its weapons of mass destruction is also a secure North Korea," Pompeo said.
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"We are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction and production facilities in Iraq," Mr. Bolton said in 2002.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the transition said in a statement Friday night.
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Republicans thought Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction when we invaded Iraq and that he had taken part in the Sept.
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It is not necessary because America's regular armed forces are strong enough to defeat enemies without recourse to weapons of mass destruction.
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"Smith pleaded guilty to two counts of distributing information related to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction," the release said.
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"He didn't just aggressively push for war with Iraq, he was confident that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction," she continued.
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Such an outcome would have echoes, they caution, of the failed effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003.
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Over the following decade, the West grew suspicious of Hussein's ambitions and the fear that he was developing weapons of mass destruction.
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But Mr. Greenwald has long criticized mainstream American journalists as being too credulous with government intelligence claims (see "weapons of mass destruction").
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Trump will likely try to pass off attacks on Iran as an effort to stem the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
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As a result, we need to be concerned with the possibility of regime elements using weapons of mass destruction against U.S. troops.
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It is vital, mentioned this in the negotiations, crucial that we fine tune global stability and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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But his son, in addition to ramping up his country's weapons of mass destruction, appears intent on modernizing his country's look, too.
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And, indeed, Bush did justify the war as a quest for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which turned out not to exist.
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She also has what are essentially the only weapons of mass destruction, so she might not even need to act diplomatically at all.
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After all, the President compared the intelligence community to Nazis and reminded them of their mistake regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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"Weapons of mass destruction and non-personal weapons in general should not be 'sanctified,'" Bishop Savva of Zelenograd said on Telegram in 2019.
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He knows what happened to Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein when they could no longer use weapons of mass destruction as insurance policies.
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During President George W. Bush's administration, the U.S. invaded Iraq after citing faulty intelligence assessments that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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Give us your sense of... KASICH: Oh, well, listen, I think being in Iraq, look, we thought there were weapons of mass destruction.
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ROLF EKEUS, a Swedish diplomat, once personified the most sustained effort ever undertaken to deprive a country of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
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He is charged with use of weapons of mass destruction, bombing a public place, destruction of property and use of a destructive device.
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At the time, there was debate over if it was justified to invade Iraq because the country supposedly had weapons of mass destruction.
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The CIA director at that time said that the information related to weapons of mass destruction was a quote-on-quote slam dunk.
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A U.S. intelligence report last month said North Korea was "unlikely to give up" its weapons of mass destruction, missiles or production capability.
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One man in the audience confronted Trump for saying that Bush had lied about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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DTRA still predominantly focuses on weapons of mass destruction and military-grade radioactive materials, chemicals, and biological agents that could lead to proliferation.
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Given the area has done this well out of weapons of mass destruction, it follows that local politicians effectively worship at death's altar.
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During the Bush Administration, the "why" of their war was predicated on a lie: there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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"It has turned out to be the most vulnerable link in the system of limiting and reducing weapons of mass destruction," Gorbachev said.
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Short of war, there is little Washington can do to get Pyongyang to give up its weapons of mass destruction and missile technology.
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The Foreign Office is demoralised by decades of cuts, and the security establishment is still tainted by the weapons-of-mass-destruction fiasco.
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I think that they eventually put in those regulations when it became obvious that planes could be used as weapons of mass destruction.
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Trump on Wednesday is chairing a Security Council meeting that has been billed as a discussion on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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At the time of the Iraq war, there was, the American people were told, evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
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They must support diversity over white supremacy, a global 21st century economy over isolation and protectionism, and safety over weapons of mass destruction.
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Of course, Daenerys is the beautiful hero and she wants to bring beautiful change, but she's also using these weapons of mass destruction.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the team said at the time of the CIA.
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Thus, a war to overthrow a local despot deemed insufficiently compliant to American interests was packaged as defense against weapons of mass destruction.
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Zarif likened her presentation Thursday to former Secretary of State Colin Powell's claim in 6900 that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
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Trump blasted Bush's brother for launching the Iraq war in 2003 over claims, later proven false, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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And, of course, there are the "weapons of mass destruction" lies, presented with great gravitas by, among others, Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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The supposed existence of weapons of mass destruction provided a pretext for Iraq's annihilation, which allowed Iran to vandalize an enormous Arab nation.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the team said in a statement at the time.
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But wait — this is actually worse than starting a war in Iraq and later finding out there were no weapons of mass destruction.
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But the challenges are more wide-ranging: foreign and domestic terrorism, cyber intrusions, weapons of mass destruction, election interference, and strengthening U.S. borders.
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North Korea's continuing nuclear ambitions will pose the greatest threat in terms of weapons of mass destruction in the coming year, Coats said.
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Garst and Chrystal and their Soviet counterparts built in a buffer that contributed significantly to those weapons of mass destruction never being fired.
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George W. Bush was adorable, and the Patriot Act made him a hero; there were, without question, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Zarif likened her presentation Thursday to former Secretary of State Colin Powell's claim in 2003 that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
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Similarly, the Bush administration focused on preventing Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction, despite more compelling proof of North Korea's prohibited programs.
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"Saddam Hussein is relentlessly pursuing weapons of mass destruction, abusing his own people and making a mockery of the United Nations," Biden wrote.
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And it is basically the international standard on how one can go about addressing the issue of elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
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Morrison was brought on to the NSC by John Bolton, the former national security adviser, to handle weapons of mass destruction and biodefense.
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But even if Saddam had turned out to possess weapons of mass destruction, if Bush had been right, what would it really change?
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Last month, Trump invoked the CIA's false intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to question the agency's claims about Russian involvement in the election.
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Earlier today the Senate Intelligence Committee released its report on the numerous failures in the CIA reporting of alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
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"Our objective remains unchanged: We're committed to permanent, verifiable, irreversible dismantling of North Koreans' weapons of mass destruction programs without delay," Mr. Pompeo said.
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The main reason given for the invasion - that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction - has been debunked after none was found.
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And, no question, it will continue to conduct lethal attacks, seeking over time to obtain weapons of mass destruction – chemical, biological, radiological and cyber.
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And what we did there was to look at people's processing of information related to the Iraq War and the weapons of mass destruction.
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The accord bars stationing weapons of mass destruction in space and restricts the use of the moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
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" He says AI might develop into a "new class of scalable weapons of mass destruction, that small groups could use to attack large populations.
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The complaint charges Rahami with use of weapons of mass destruction, bombing a public place, destruction of property and use of a destructive device.
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But he later was indicted on attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction.
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If you get Republicans into the laboratory, and you say hey, there weren't any weapons of mass destruction, that may strengthen their incorrect belief.
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So Mr Ekeus had a told-you-so feeling when the Americans, after invading Iraq in 2003, found no weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
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Gabbard mentioned the previous invasion of Iraq, and the intelligence that suggested Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which turned out to be false.
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If they can work together, then perhaps they can find a way to deal with the hermit kingdom and its weapons of mass destruction.
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A U.S. intelligence report last month said that North Korea was "unlikely to give up" its weapons of mass destruction, missiles or production capability.
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Members of the Bush administration who lied about weapons of mass destruction and defended torture have all made a graceful return to civil society.
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Wonder Woman suggests that little girls need to grow up not just to be supermodels, not just supersoldiers—but actual weapons of mass destruction.
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The claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was such a case, and the current standoff with North Korea might become another one.
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But so far the world has largely managed to avoid going from targeting or aiming to actually launching any such weapons of mass destruction.
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In each case, the danger to the United States from aggressive leaders, weapons of mass destruction, violent paramilitaries and radicalized sympathizers is very real.
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"What Trump's talking about is conspiracy theories," he said of the billionaire's charge that President Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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They include the growing Russian threat, transnational terrorism, cyberwarfare, piracy on the high seas and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, among others.
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It smacked of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell's 2003 UN address in which he claimed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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Where the U.S. could best collaborate with Russia is on fighting North Korea's nuclear program and keeping weapons of mass destruction away from terrorists.
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So, too, was George W. Bush's insistence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and, therefore, represented a clear and present danger to America.
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Russia maintained historic and economic ties to Iraq, and the Kremlin publicly disputed the White House's claim that Baghdad possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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Imagine, in 2000, if we'd elected a president who believed in forceful action against climate change and didn't believe in weapons of mass destruction?
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The world needs to be moving away from new nuclear weapons states, not increasing the number of countries with these weapons of mass destruction.
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But, unlike the sugary ersatz of the circus, North Korea's concoction is coated with deadly poison in the mold of weapons of mass destruction.
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The pravda is that Trump was right in saying that the intelligence agencies got it wrong about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction.
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This goes part in parcel to Tehran's continuous effort to obtain weapons of mass destruction, including its clandestine nuclear drive and ballistic missiles program.
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The foundation of the American presence in Iraq — the mission to save Iraq from Saddam Hussein, the weapons of mass destruction — is all lies.
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In May 2001, Bush appointed him to be undersecretary of state for arms control, basically the top diplomat focusing on weapons of mass destruction.
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Several of those nations openly confronted Mr. Trump on Wednesday, when he led a United Nations Security Council meeting about weapons of mass destruction.
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Washington wants the "final, fully verifiable" dismantlement of all of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, fissile materials and production facilities.
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Stationing or testing any weapons of mass destruction in space, including nuclear weapons, is banned by the United Nations' Outer Space Treaty of 1967.
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She will be replaced by Tim Morrison, an arms control expert who oversees policy on weapons of mass destruction at the National Security Council.
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"We will continue to press North Korea to abandon all of its weapons of mass destruction, ballistic missiles related programs and facilities," Pompeo said.
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He was credibly accused of manipulating US intelligence on weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq War and of abusive treatment of his subordinates.
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A Trump tweet reminding people about the mistaken conclusion that Saddam Hussein's Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction was seen as a mean-spirited swipe.
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"I never believed they had weapons of mass destruction," he said at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in October 221.
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This brings us to the original sin of efforts to stem the spread of weapons of mass destruction, or WMDs, and suchlike: dual-use technology.
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It has been the longstanding policy of the United States to draw a line in the sand when it comes to weapons of mass destruction.
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Enhanced preparedness: The U.S. and South Korea should prepare a response of massive retaliation — including nuclear arms — should North Korea use weapons of mass destruction.
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The North Korean government uses this 'imminent threat' to justify its substantial investment in weapons of mass destruction, even if this means citizens must sacrifice.
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He compared the intelligence community's assessments to the debunked claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the Iraq War.
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But we do have treaties that we've signed all over the world saying we're not going to let one nation use weapons of mass destruction.
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However, Laura Holgate, Obama's adviser on weapons of mass destruction, cited commitments from 30 countries at the 2014 summit to secure their most dangerous material.
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In that advisory position, Bolton argued strongly in favor of the Iraq war, tying his justification to the supposed presence of weapons of mass destruction.
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It would have to "ultimately ensure removal or destruction of stockpiles of fissile material, weapons, missiles, launchers and other weapons of mass destruction," he added.
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"They know it and they see nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction as the only way for them to protect themselves," Putin said Thursday.
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It helped persuade the George W. Bush administration — mistakenly, as it turned out — that Saddam Hussein was still developing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Although the Outer Space Treaty of 28500 prevented the placement of weapons of mass destruction in outer space, it never prohibited conventional weapons in space.
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Mr. Rahami was charged in federal court with several crimes, including the use of weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use.
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He has also charged his fellow Republican, President George W. Bush, with lying about weapons of mass destruction to justify going to war in Iraq.
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Real reform and dismantlement of weapons of mass destruction will come only when the Kim regime is presented with sufficient disincentives from staying the course.
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" He added that Japan will continue its policy of "maximum pressure" until "North Korea gives up WMDs [weapons of mass destruction] and nuclear missiles completely.
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Rather, it focused on the important but much narrower question of whether Iraq, as Bush had claimed, possessed a clandestine weapons of mass destruction program.
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The 1967 Outer Space Treaty contains no language that specifically prohibits militarizing space, except when it comes to weapons of mass destruction, like nuclear weapons.
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While serving in Bush's state department in the lead-up to the war, Bolton accused Iraq of working to amass a weapons of mass destruction.
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Donald Rumsfeld famously popularized the term "unknown unknowns" in a 2002 news briefing when describing the challenges of linking Iraq to weapons of mass destruction.
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The charges against the 27-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant include use of weapons of mass destruction and provision of material support to the Islamic State.
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Skeptics pointed to the Iraq war, when the Bush administration's claim that Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction turned out to be untrue.
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That mistake made it doubly important for Trump to show that neither Assad nor any leader can get away with using weapons of mass destruction.
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He had lied about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and waged an illegal war against the caution of the international community.
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President George W. Bush took months to argue his case — later proved to be flawed — about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Critics of the report have repeatedly noted that intelligence agencies, in the months before the Iraq War, endorsed faulty assessments concerning weapons of mass destruction.
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In 2003, in the run-up to the Iraq war, articles about Saddam Hussein's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction filled newspaper pages across the world.
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It is based on the life of the former C.I.A. operative Valerie Plame and the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq last decade.
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He was credibly accused of manipulating US intelligence on weapons of mass destruction prior to the Iraq war and of abusive treatment of his subordinates.
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If the U.S. sanctions were enacted, they would be the second such batch in just over a year against Syria's weapons of mass destruction program.
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That treaty bans the use of weapons of mass destruction in orbit, but it does not explicitly ban the use of missile technologies used for ASAT.
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Drumheller was a vocal critic of the Bush administration, claiming that it ignored intelligence casting doubt on its claims concerning Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.
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The problem with feral weapons of mass destruction is that they can turn on you, or be killed — no more claims to a higher mystical command.
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The CEO has a PhD in chemical physics, and formerly helped the Department of Defense keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists.
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Healthcare system is "shot through with rampant waste," and that is "deeply immoral" Buffett says "the number one problem of mankind is weapons of mass destruction"
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No American president could ignore the possibility that terrorists might get their hands on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and use them against the American homeland.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he and Sam Nunn, a centrist Democratic senator, wangled some funds from Congress to dismantle weapons of mass destruction.
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He said that he thought for sure that after reading all this stuff as an outsider that there were actually weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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In May 2001, then-President Bush appointed Bolton to be undersecretary of state for arms control, basically the top diplomat focusing on weapons of mass destruction.
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As a new member of that committee in 2002 and 2003, she said she read, and believed, assessments that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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They are scornful of the self-serving technocrats who said that the euro would improve their lives and that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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The ministry gave details of 32 materials, technologies and forms of equipment with potential use related to weapons of mass destruction, including particle accelerators and centrifuges.
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New York City bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami was charged Tuesday night with multiple federal counts, including using weapons of mass destruction, according to multiple reports.
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China's economic and diplomatic support have kept successive Kim regimes in power and solvent enough to pursue the acquisition and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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The neoconservatives sold the Iraq war on the basis of dodgy claims about weapons of mass destruction and direct links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.
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He was a strong force in the preemptive war against Iraq, relying on flimsy intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to drum up support in Congress.
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To stop the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Clinton empowered the Commerce Department to control any exports that could aid countries in producing those weapons.
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Leaders will call on North Korea to "completely, verifiably and irreversibly dismantle all its nuclear and weapons of mass destruction", according to the draft final statement.
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Laura S.H. Holgate served as special assistant to the president on weapons of mass destruction and terrorism at the National Security Council from 2009 to 2016.
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Had there been weapons of mass destruction under Iraqi soil and a successful occupation, or had Bush and his advisers chosen a more prudent post-Sept.
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When in the wrong hands, assault weapons, or 'weapons of mass destruction,' can prove deadly and they have no place in our streets, neighborhoods, and cities.
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The U.S. coalition strikes in Syria were a direct but limited response to the violation of international norms opposing chemical weapons and weapons of mass destruction.
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The U.S. Congress passed legislation this year that would sanction anyone who engages in, facilitates or contributes to North Korea's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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In her concertina sketchbook series, she draws the fair's other attendees in fold-out A2139 notebooks, as they inspect weapons of mass destruction and guzzle champagne.
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He gets several countries to disarm their nuclear programs and has fashioned Project Zeus, a series of weapons of mass destruction that could obliterate several cities.
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The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) became a U.S. intelligence community priority and led to the Iraq War in 2003 and its enduring fallout.
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Those bypassed analysts might have noted that much of the intelligence underpinning the administration's assessment of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction came from completely unreliable sources.
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The same was true for the 2003 invasion of Iraq: It was first and foremost a campaign to disarm Saddam Hussein of weapons of mass destruction.
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Tactically, it may help persuade Mr. Assad (and other problematic leaders, like those in North Korea) that using weapons of mass destruction will not go unpunished.
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At the time, George W. Bush administration officials appeared convinced that Saddam Hussein's government was creating weapons of mass destruction, though that was not the case.
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" Leaving Saddam in power, Bolton argued, "would have all but guaranteed further conflict with other Arab states, and a resumed quest for weapons of mass destruction.
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He forcefully argued that Iraq had WMDs — "we are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction," as he put in one 2002 speech.
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He backed up his assertions by saying he spoke out against the Iraq War and cast doubt on reports that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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Chalabi lined up a parade of Iraq defectors to provide compelling — and inaccurate — stories of Hussein's terrorist connections and his stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.
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Washington and Moscow had many common interests, he said, citing the Middle East, North Korea, international terrorism, environmental problems and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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But Aegon's mission to unify Westeros wasn't all blood-soaked triumphs via the world's only living, fire-breathing weapons of mass destruction — he suffered some casualties too.
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A voluntary 1987 pact bars Riyadh from buying US technology that could carry weapons of mass destruction, so, it is alleged Saudi Arabia sought assistance from Beijing.
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Evidence discovered after the Paris attacks of November -- hours of footage tracking the movements of a Belgian nuclear official -- suggest ISIS' interest in weapons of mass destruction.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the Trump transition team said in a statement about the CIA's Russia assessment.
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She also notes that the plan wouldn't run afoul of the Outer Space Treaty, which explicitly prohibits things like nucleaer weapons or "other weapons of mass destruction."
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Sanders, meanwhile, agreed at the time with much of what Bush said about Iraq, including the view that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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However, they have more strongly stressed the need for the Middle East to be a "weapons of mass destruction free zone," as Turki did at the event.
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Mr Hull even sees Greene's "clairvoyance" at work in the faulty evidence of weapons of mass destruction on which the invasion of Iraq was based in 2003.
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Still, Musk, and maybe to a certain extent Putin, made people think of AI as it might be connected to weapons, even weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
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When Trump declared that President Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Jeb – who has previously been criticized for tame debate performances – hit back hard.
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But Mattis says he could imagine a scenario where it&aposs possible if another country were preparing to fire weapons of mass destruction at the United States.
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Neither were any of the architects of Bush's torture policy, or the people responsible for cooking the books on the intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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"Nanobots are the real concern about wiping out humanity because they can be weapons of mass destruction," said Louis Del Monte, a Minnesota-based physicist and futurist.
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"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on," he said at the time.
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"It has turned out to be the most vulnerable link in the system of limiting and reducing weapons of mass destruction," Gorbachev wrote of the landmark treaty.
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The legislation requires the President to investigate sanctionable conduct by North Korea, including proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, human rights abuse, cybersecurity attacks, and other actions.
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They showed Trump clips of himself reversing his decision on Afghanistan, on Syrian refugees and on George W. Bush and the issue of weapons of mass destruction.
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Republican presidential-nomination campaign, Trump asserted that then-President George W. Bush "lied" when he claimed, before the Iraq invasion, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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"Saddam Hussein rejected the production of weapons of mass destruction, but even under that pretense, he was destroyed and members of his family were killed," Putin said.
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Other than the threat posed to by North Korea's weapons of mass destruction, another issue overhanging the summit plans is the fate of three Americans detained there.
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The cuts were made without extensive review of possible vulnerabilities and directed by James McDonnell, the department's assistant secretary of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office.
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He repeatedly criticized former President George W. Bush, including asserting that the 43rd president's administration had consciously lied about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
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She served in the Obama administration as deputy secretary of Energy and as White House coordinator for defense policy, countering weapons of mass destruction and arms control.
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A limited preemptive strike might not destroy all of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction but could well precipitate a massive conventional war on the Korean Peninsula.
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The 57-year-old had pleaded guilty to using weapons of mass destruction in an attempted domestic terrorist attack, along with 64 other felony charges in March.
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O was named in U.S. sanctions against North Korea's weapons programme in 2013 specifically to "further impede North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes".
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The story takes place in 2004, and Tanner uses Cooper's sections to traffic in familiar and stiff rhetoric about the Iraq war and weapons of mass destruction.
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An asset class that Warren Buffett once labeled "financial weapons of mass destruction" has fallen to a third of the level it was during the financial crisis.
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"It turns out that it is obviously very timely," Laura Holgate, a specialist in weapons of mass destruction with the National Security Council, told reporters on Wednesday.
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"It's always very difficult to degrade these types of capabilities using airstrikes," Rebecca Hersman, a former top Pentagon official on weapons of mass destruction (WMD), told me.
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The 2014 RAND study, conducted for the United States Army, imagined the North's collapse and a military rush to secure and remove its weapons of mass destruction.
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This dramatic, large-scale print is a compilation of 3-D renderings of 50 conventional weapons and weapons of mass destruction developed by a number of countries.
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The document also urges international condemnation of Syria's use of chemical weapons and harshly criticizes Russia for "shielding" an ally that has used weapons of mass destruction.
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In December, he suggested that United States intelligence agencies could not be trusted because they erroneously concluded that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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"What the international community expects is that North Korea abandon all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles in a complete verifiable and irreversible manner," he said.
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In a historically catastrophic decision, the George W. Bush administration used a false rationale that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction to invade Iraq in 2003.
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"Of course chemicals are weapons of mass destruction," said a doctor east of Damascus who treated victims of the first major chemical attack in Syria, in 2013.
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It was the fall of 2002 and the Bush administration was pushing for sweeping authority to act against Saddam Hussein, claiming he had weapons of mass destruction.
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Mr. Trump rejected the offer, demanding the much quicker and broader elimination of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction, including its nuclear warheads and long-range missiles.
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The Bush administration has been widely criticized for the way it hyped the intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to build the case for war in Iraq.
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The Trump administration Wednesday placed new sanctions on an Iranian shipping network and airline for allegedly smuggling lethal aid into Yemen and proliferating weapons of mass destruction.
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The US will focus on weapons of mass destruction and nonproliferation, with a strong emphasis on Iran and the need to contain and constrain the Islamic Republic.
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General Kelly, who led the United States Southern Command, warned Congress last year of the danger of terrorists and "weapons of mass destruction" coming in from Mexico.
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"2016 marked the year North Korea truly ramped up their WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) program," Hanham at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey said.
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This is a national security issue, and the Administration must treat it like one, with the kind of urgency we give to weapons of mass destruction overseas.
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Bolton served as undersecretary of State in the years leading up to the war, and had a focus on preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
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No architects of Bush's torture policy faced legal punishment, nor did the people responsible for cooking the books on the intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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A giant asteroid hitting Earth, disease pandemics, a massive volcanic eruption, artificial intelligence turning against us, weapons of mass destruction and ecological collapse all made the list.
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THE BIG THING YOU NEED TO WORRY ABOUT IN THIS WORLD IS WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T WORRY ABOUT OTHER THINGS BUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION , THATS THE BIG WORRY ITS BEEN THE WORRY EVER SINCE AUGUST OF 1945 KERNEN: I AGREE FUKUSHIMA AND WHATEVER NUMBER IS ATTACHED TO IT THAT DOESNT GO AWAY FOR 500 YEARS MIGHT BE MORE OF A WORRY THAN CO2.
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That means North Korea is desperate for funds and could choose to sell what it knows about building weapons of mass destruction in order to make a buck.
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The President appeared to reference the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which was premised on faulty and manipulated intelligence that former leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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The memo said the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction office would only focus on quantities and configurations of the drug that could be used as mass casualty weapons.
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In 2002, then a United States senator, she voted to authorise the invasion of Iraq in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to exist.
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Rahami was charged in federal court with four counts: use of weapons of mass destruction, bombing a public place, destruction of property and use of a destructive device.
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It was wrong because the decision to intervene in the first place was not justified, being based as it was on faulty premises regarding weapons of mass destruction.
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That sends an alarming signal about the erosion of global rules and norms on weapons of mass destruction, as well as the limits of U.S. power and influence.
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Time and time again, history teaches us that North Korea loves to pocket concessions, string out negotiations for years and build ever-more advanced weapons of mass destruction.
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And yet I think to this date about 30 percent of the public believes in the existence of weapons of mass destruction, and that's sharply along partisan lines.
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Jordan reiterated its rejection and condemnation of the use of weapons of mass destruction, including the recent chemical attack against civilians in Khan Sheikhoun in Syria's Idlib province.
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Some experts interpreted the strike as a warning to North Korea that the US is prepared to act militarily to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.
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In fact, last year's National Security Strategy elevated climate change as a top-level strategic risk, alongside terrorism, economic crises, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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And Trump once again brought up the intelligence community's failure 15 years ago over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction as a reason to doubt the intelligence community's conclusions.
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Before President George W. Bush launched the war against Iraq in 2003, a huge intelligence lapse led to the erroneous reporting that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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She, too, served in the Middle East following 9/11 but has become disillusioned by the loss of life and the failed search for weapons of mass destruction.
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Still, Trump is not the first president to knowingly issue false or misleading statements, from "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq to "keeping your own doctor" under ObamaCare.
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"Expect more sanctions soon," Tim Morrison, the National Security Council's senior director for weapons of mass destruction and biodefense, said at a Foundation for Defense of Democracies conference.
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This was still decades before Warren Buffett would deem derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction," but Marin was also one of the first to see their calamitous potential.
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The state of Bavaria&aposs intelligence report concluded that Iran&aposs regime is working to turn its conventional military weapons into a system for weapons of mass destruction.
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And investigative priorities include, but are not limited to, matters involving terrorism, public corruption, civil rights, organized crime, white-collar crime, violent crime, and weapons of mass destruction.
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Remember then-CIA Director George Tenet's infamous "It's a slam dunk" statement to the president on the likelihood of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Saddam Hussein's Iraq?
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Deterring state possession and use of weapons of mass destruction is therefore crucial to keeping these weapons beyond the reach of terrorists who, like Assad, would use them.
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In 2003, Qaddafi made a "historic decision" to dismantle his weapons of mass destruction and renounce terrorism, and in 2006 the US restored full diplomatic relations with Libya.
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Russia warned that the termination of the treaty "could seriously undermine international Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) non-proliferation and Arms Control mechanisms" and called for its preservation.
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The Australian Federal Police said 59-year-old naturalized Australian Chan Han Choi used encrypted communication to broker sales and discuss the supply of weapons of mass destruction.
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The meeting collapsed when Mr. Trump rejected the proposal, insisting on a quick and comprehensive rollback of the North's entire weapons of mass destruction program before lifting sanctions.
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He also said Mr. Choi was "discussing the supply of weapons of mass destruction," in reference to the attempted sale of the missile components described by the police.
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It's that North Korea has nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction — and is now in a situation where they might have real incentives to use them.
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And two sources with knowledge of the situation also said that two contractors from the department's Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office have tested positive for the virus.
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Mr. Putin compared the White House's arguments to the erroneous intelligence findings on weapons of mass destruction that drew the United States into war with Iraq in 2003.
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We had our rows, and there was plenty of spin and huge disagreements — it was, after all, the era of weapons of mass destruction that were not found.
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"It is crucial that we fine-tune the stability and global security and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction," Putin said during a joint news conference with Trump.
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Wilson later published an op-ed casting doubts on the administration's claims, which had been used to back up assertions that Iraq was pursuing weapons of mass destruction.
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In 2008, Trump told CNN's Wolf Blitzer he thought George W. Bush should have been impeached for lying about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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The George W. Bush administration previously settled on designating only the IRGC's elite Quds Force for terrorism and the entire IRGC for proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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The Russian lawmaker also reiterated his view that U.S. intelligence agencies should not be trusted after their reports on Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction in 2003.
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But most previous national emergencies covered contingencies like sanctions on foreign entities during conflicts, public health crises or attempts to stem the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke will speak on the future of combating terrorism and countering the use of weapons of mass destruction at 2023:45 p.m.
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They include China and Russia's thrust for a treaty on weapons in space and Russia's hope for a treaty to stop Islamist militants obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
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However, such a tactic comes right out of the North Korean playbook: pocket the concessions, stall on negotiations and build out your weapons of mass destruction arsenal even more.
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None the people responsible for distorting the intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were punished (although people who tried to blow the whistle about said distortion certainly were).
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Critics are skeptical about US intelligence claims after the 2003 Iraq war, which was justified on the basis of now-discredited intelligence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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" Still more remarkably, a statement from the Trump transition office mocked American intelligence agencies, saying: "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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However, once aloft, their flying weapons of mass destruction swiftly encounter a new and confusing opponent: clouds, and among them, the Night King, ready to make his dramatic entrance.
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We don't know what happened to all those dragons — maybe they were eliminated by the White Walkers, who would not take kindly to fire-breathing weapons of mass destruction.
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And while the violence is often carried out with conventional weapons, the attack last week was not the first time weapons of mass destruction have been used in Syria.
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It was important also when a regional power such as Saddam Hussein's Iraq invaded a smaller neighbor, or when it flouted international norms to develop weapons of mass destruction.
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Prosecutors accused the firm of contributing to North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program, but the court ruled that its capital was related to military weapons, not nuclear ones.
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Of the 1,000 people surveyed in Russia as part of the Global Challenges Foundation analysis, 91 percent thought weapons of mass destruction were the greatest risk to global insecurity.
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It's undeniable that the U.S. should have been more cautious in acting on the CIA's "slam dunk case" — in their words — that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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Many people supported President George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq because we were told there were weapons of mass destruction — and then we found out it was false information.
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The settlements relate to apparent violations of sanctions targeting proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, global terrorism and Iran, Myanmar, Cuba, Libya, Sudan and Syria, the Treasury Department said.
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Other U.S. priorities include agreeing on a specific roadmap for future negotiations and securing a freeze on all development or manufacturing of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
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Two members of Ziemer's global health team are now working in a unit overseeing weapons of mass destruction and another joined a unit on international organizations, the Post reported.
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But the suspicion lingers that China worries more about the enforcement of sanctions that might topple the odious regime in Pyongyang than about North Korea's weapons of mass destruction.
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But it was a sincere vote taken only after consulting with national security officials from the Clinton administration who also believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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The letter also comes ahead of Trump's appearance at the U.N., where he is set to chair a Security Council meeting on the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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Robyn Gritz was an FBI supervisory special agent for more than 16 years, specializing in counterterrorism, overseas abductions and crime, strategic planning/execution/communications, and weapons of mass destruction.
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She didn't read the briefings that she should've read, that would've shown that there was much less information to back up George Bush's claims about weapons of mass destruction.
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Sam Nunn (Ga.) to secure and dismantle the recently-collapsed Soviet Union's weapons of mass destruction, thereby leaving far fewer of these powerful weapons available to despots and terrorists.
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Lugar's long career in the Senate, he established the Lugar Center, a nonprofit organization in Washington focused on food security, nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and bipartisan governance.
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He branded the Iraq War "a big, fat mistake" and George W. Bush a "liar" about weapons of mass destruction — and found that many Republican voters agreed with him.
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Article IV of the treaty provides that celestial bodies be used "for peaceful purposes only," and objects in orbit carrying nuclear or weapons of mass destruction are strictly prohibited.
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A nation terrorized again — and again, and again, and again — by the uniquely deadly combination of twisted hatred and weapons of mass destruction as easily available as cough medicine.
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Naser Maleki is the head of the SHIG and was designated under E.O. 13382 for his involvement in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and their delivery systems.
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China is not a party of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), which was created to limit the proliferation of missiles, missile technology, and other weapons of mass destruction.
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The surveillance program has uncovered all kinds of invaluable information, from terrorist plots and changes in terrorist tactics to plans to spread weapons of mass destruction and escalate cyberattacks.
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Paul Pillar, who was the National Intelligence Officer for the Middle East in 2000-2005 agreed there were shortfalls in the intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction capabilities.
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In addition to using weapons of mass destruction, the charges include mailing explosives with an intent to kill or injure people or property, and conveying threats through interstate commerce.
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Mr. Trump regularly tells voters that he was against the war, and he has accused Mr. Bush of lying about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Further, the failure to respond will not only embolden the Assad regime but also convince despots around the world that weapons of mass destruction can be used without penalty.
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There were throngs of reporters with bright cameras, hazardous materials technicians wearing space-like suits, and later, detectives from FBI Chicago's counter-terrorism and weapons of mass destruction unit.
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Following the disclosure that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, President Bush offered a new rationale for the invasion: to rid the world of a dictator.
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The Trump transition team quickly attacked the credibility of the C.I.A. in a prepared statement: These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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How can we protect the rights of citizens to defend themselves while keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of those who would use them to harm?
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The Libyan leader agreed in 2003 to eliminate his weapons of mass destruction; in 2011, he was killed by rebels that the United States and its allies had supported.
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The dearth of hard evidence connecting Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda or confirming the existence of an Iraqi program for developing weapons of mass destruction was beside the point.
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What distinguishes the United States from other countries is the availability of weapons of mass destruction that can readily be purchased in stores, gun shows and on the internet.
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I wasn't aware that it was 'socialism' that lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and got us into a horrific war that we should never have started.
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I don't need to see pictures of the weapons of mass destruction, de Gaulle replied: 'The word of the president of the United States is good enough for me.
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He has criticized the C.I.A. analysis, saying it was supplied by the same agency that provided erroneous intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq War.
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The MTCR is a voluntary, non-legally binding agreement among 28503 countries to limit transfers of missiles that could be used as delivery vehicles for weapons of mass destruction.
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He has discounted the US intelligence community's assessment that Kim won't denuclearize so easily because the North Korean leader considers his weapons of mass destruction critical to regime survival.
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These reforms stemmed from inaccurate claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) prior to the 2003 U.S. invasion and lingering concerns about the 21625/2900 terrorist attacks.
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George Tenet, in his more readable memoir, "At the Center of the Storm," spends a lot of time on his mistakes, especially on Iraq's missing weapons of mass destruction.
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She is married to former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who published a 2628 op-ed that questioned the Bush administration's findings about Iraq's efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction.
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George W. Bush's Administration had vowed to attack any "rogue nation" that developed weapons of mass destruction, and Bolton began a public crusade against America's enemies, real and presumed.
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Jarrett William Smith, a 93-year-old soldier stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, was charged with one count of distributing information related to explosives and weapons of mass destruction.
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That means elimination of all weapons of mass destruction programs in North Korea - the production of those weapons, as well as the intercontinental ballistic missiles that can deliver them.
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In the runup to the Iraq War, George W. Bush's administration made a clear and repeated case that Saddam Hussein, the country's brutal dictator, had weapons of mass destruction.
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He blamed the IC for providing false evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, one of the main reasons cited by the George W. Bush administration for the war.
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To bolster his point, Trump cites the CIA's faulty intelligence about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
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Mingzheng could not be immediately reached for comment In March 2013, the U.S. Treasury Department placed the Foreign Trade Bank under sanctions linked to proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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Both countries have been accused of trying to interfere in our elections, and both have advanced cyber capabilities, not to mention weapons of mass destruction and advanced conventional military capabilities.
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Cesar Sayoc, 57, who pleaded guilty in March to using weapons of mass destruction and other crimes, began crying when U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan read the sentence.
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Because aside from breeding fool-hardy, short-sighted egomaniac and "heroes," their patriarchal world order also created weapons of mass destruction out of the very women it sought to oppress.
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And as space technologies became more advanced, there was a concern that Earth orbit and beyond provided a whole new area from which weapons of mass destruction could be launched.
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Readers on both sides of the Atlantic learned the peril of blind quotes when claims by unnamed sources on weapons of mass destruction turned out to be exaggerated or untrue.
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In addition, Rahimi was charged in federal court with four counts: use of weapons of mass destruction, bombing a public place, destruction of property and use of a destructive device.
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The rationales for the Iraq War that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and that he was allied in some manner with al Qaeda were, of course total nonsense.
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In New Jersey he is charged with two counts of using and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction for the attempted bombings in Seaside Park and Elizabeth, authorities said.
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Mattis said that he could forsee a situation where it's possible to preemptively fire weapons should another country be preparing to use weapons of mass destruction at the United States.
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Rahami was charged last week in federal court with four counts -- use of weapons of mass destruction, bombing a public place, destruction of property and use of a destructive device.
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Texas Congressman Michael McCaul, chair of the House homeland security committee says federal prosecutors are also considering weapons of mass destruction charges for the explosive devices found at the scene.
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"Of course we would have proceeded differently if we had known that Saddam Hussein was not stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, but was only planning to do so," he said.
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Jordan Reaction: Supports strike Government spokesman Mohammad Momani said Jordan considers the strike "a necessary and appropriate response to the nonstop targeting of innocent civilians" with weapons of mass destruction.
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The impact of Presidential tweets rejecting analysis from the folks, "who said Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction" and then labeling them Nazi-like will linger for some time.
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"I am sure that things will not go as far as a large-scale conflict, especially with the use of weapons of mass destruction," Putin told delegates at the forum.
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North Korea must understand that the only path to a secure, economically-prosperous future is to abandon its development of nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, and other weapons of mass destruction.
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Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi, for instance, decided to give up all his weapons of mass destruction in 2003 and 2004 in return for an end to his decades-long isolation.
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Hysteria about our nation's capabilities and capacity to handle threats is an old one: the bomber gap, the missile gap, mobile nuclear weapons launchers, weapons of mass destruction, weaponizing space.
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Tim Morrison, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Biodefense, told a conference that Washington was not 'done' with imposing sanctions on Iran.
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Mr Blair championed the war in Iraq on the grounds that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, and that toppling a dictator might bring democracy to the Middle East.
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"There are many existential threats out there," Amaryllis Fox, a former clandestine services officer who worked to prevent terrorists from getting their hands on weapons of mass destruction, told Insider.
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And during a raucous campaign debate in February, Trump accused Bush of deliberately misleading the public about weapons of mass destruction to boost support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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US and Russian citizens face common challenges, including terrorism, environmental issues, battling the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the Middle East and tensions on the Korean Peninsula, he said.
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"From the refugee crisis worldwide, to the threat of global warming, to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction — the world's increasingly complex problems demand multilateral solutions," the senators wrote.
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The suspect in a number of attempted pipe bombings of prominent Democrats was indicted Friday on charges of using weapons of mass destruction with intent of killing or injuring individuals.
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As an undersecretary in the State Department during the George W. Bush administration, Bolton also pushed the now-discredited belief that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction.
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Nuclear weapons have been banned from space since 1967, when the United States and Russia signed the Outer Space Treaty, banning weapons of mass destruction from beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
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The charges against Mr. Rahami include two that carry a potential life sentence if he is convicted — use of weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use.
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I wanted to make sure that he didn't have a gun, a knife, a needle, weapons of mass destruction—anything that could be harmful to me or himself or others.
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Australian Federal Police allege Choi brokered the sale of missiles, missile components and expertise from North Korea to other international entities, and discussed the supply of weapons of mass destruction.
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He added, "I think there is an American national interest in preventing people from violating treaties that try to restrict the use or the spread of weapons of mass destruction."
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"Virtually all of the DPRK's resources are channeled into its reckless and relentless pursuit of weapons of mass destruction," US ambassador Samantha Power told the Council after the resolution's adoption.
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There are 5 priorities: the Middle Eastern Peace Process; tackling terrorism and weapons of mass destruction; championing world trade; helping Africa thrive and tackling global poverty; and tackling climate change.
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It's vital — and we mentioned this during the negotiations — it's crucial that we fine-tune the dialogue on strategic stability and global security and nonproliferation on weapons of mass destruction.
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"The rebuilding activities at Sohae demonstrate how quickly North Korea can easily render reversible any steps taken towards scrapping its Weapons of Mass Destruction program with little hesitation," CSIS said.
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The Iraqis were warned shortly before the conflict by Secretary of State James A. Baker III that they would pay a heavy price if they used weapons of mass destruction.
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The Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which laid much of the foundation for space law, prohibits weapons of mass destruction in orbit, on the moon or on other celestial bodies.
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They include terrorism, weapons of mass destruction in the hands of rogue regimes or terrorists, mass migrations resulting from drought and violence, and biological weapons or natural outbreaks of disease.
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Washington targeted three general sales agents of Mahan Air over the role the airline has played in weapons of mass destruction proliferation, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters.
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Second, Powell failed himself, the president, and the country, by not demonstrating sufficient independent and critical thought on the most important issue his day: weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US. drone strike, was planning an imminent attack, pointing to erroneous intelligence claiming Saddam Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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In the meantime, there would be much to negotiate and to plan to ensure that a strike against the North Korean regime and its weapons of mass destruction is foolproof.
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He called the war in Iraq "a big fat mistake" and accused the Bush administration of lying to the American people about Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction.
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In my research, I find the NCRI Ten-Point Plan for a future Iran contains three key principles: pluralism; separation of religion and state; and no weapons of mass destruction.
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Host Megyn Kelly asked him whether, "knowing what we know now" about faulty U.S. intelligence and a lack of weapons of mass destruction, he would have invaded Iraq in 2003.
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His threat to "outspend and out-innovate all others by far" in the production of weapons of mass destruction was chilling, particularly given Mr. Putin's vow of a "symmetrical" response.
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United States-led forces had invaded Iraq that March in a futile search for weapons of mass destruction, and for days looters ransacked the Iraq Museum in the capital city.
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In early March, US Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun said the US will only lift sanctions once North Korea has given up all of its weapons of mass destruction.
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During a CNN town-hall event Thursday, Trump appeared to walk back his earlier assertion that the Bush administration lied about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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The CIA was one of a number of intelligence agencies that pushed intelligence that the Iraqi regime had weapons of mass destruction ahead of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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Then-President George W. Bush and then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent hundreds of thousands of troops into Iraq, alleging that Saddam Hussein's regime had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction.
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He was a paramedic and a member of the West Central Special Response Team and the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System's Weapons of Mass Destruction/Special Response Team, the sheriff said.
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That ban covered military-civilian dual-use articles related to weapons of mass destruction -- including not only chemicals and weapons technologies, but also design software, high-speed cameras and truck chassis.
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Morrison, a lawyer, joined the administration last July as the senior director of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Biodefense where he was intimately involved in the Russia and North Korea portfolios.
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The settlements involve apparent violations of U.S. sanctions programs, including those related to IRISL, the state-owned Iranian shipping company sanctioned as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction, authorities said.
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Almost anything, including the use of weapons of mass destruction, is justified as retribution against their enemies—except, perhaps, for acts expressly forbidden by Islam, such as causing death through sodomy.
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Chandler decided to enter public service because of the attacks on 9/11 and worked to prevent arms smuggling and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, according to her website.
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It accused the firm of acting on behalf of North Korea's Korea Kwangson Banking (KKBC), which has been under U.S. and U.N. sanctions for supporting proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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The US and South Korean militaries carried out a training exercise focused on "infiltrating North Korea and removing weapons of mass destruction in case of conflict," military sources told Yonhap News.
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If war broke out between the US, South Korea, and North Korea, a key task early in the conflict would be seizing control of, or destroying, Pyongyang's weapons of mass destruction.
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He meddles with the intelligence about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, permits torture ("If the US does it, it can't be torture") and develops a dangerously expansive concept of executive power.
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In a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Gary Samore, former Obama White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction, testified on the global nuclear weapons environment.
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Anyone familiar with the Gundam anime franchise knows that it's badass, but also pretty violent—anything that involves giant fighting robots with oversized weapons of mass destruction is going to be.
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Karzai, in a Monday interview with The Associated Press, objected to the decision, saying that his country "was used very disrespectfully by the U.S. to test its weapons of mass destruction."
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Other top risks included interstate conflict, extreme weather, failure to mitigate or adapt to climate change, weapons of mass destruction and a severe energy price shock, the foundation reported on Thursday.
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The president also won his office in part because of his fierce opposition to the Iraq War, which was founded on the promise that Baghdad was developing weapons of mass destruction.
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As part of a U.S.-led coalition, Britain participated in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, justified at the time by allegations that dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's entire weapons of mass destruction program violates U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman said on Tuesday, when asked about recent missile launches by Pyongyang.
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The university told Inside Higher Ed that a faculty member is working with ICE data on his research on materials used for weapons of mass destruction imported and exported across borders.
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Nor is the GOP's apparent willingness to ban so-called "bump stocks," which are the easy-to-use attachments that turn semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic weapons of mass destruction.
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Critics note that the guns in question, as demonstrated to tragic effect in Nevada, are known as "the real weapons of mass destruction," responsible for up to 1,000 deaths a day.
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Federal authorities in Manhattan and New Jersey charged Ahmad Khan Rahami with several crimes late Tuesday, including the use of weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use.
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Third, communicate that if the Kim regime uses weapons of mass destruction on the U.S. or its allies, it will face a devastating and overwhelming response, likely leading to its downfall.
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But the treaty is not a total ban on conducting military activities in outer space nor does it prohibit placing weapons in outer space that are not weapons of mass destruction.
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In addition to their fears about terrorist actions, a majority of residents in all eight countries expect that extremist groups will acquire and use weapons of mass destruction in their lifetime.
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Rahimi, a U.S. citizen born in Afghanistan, is also facing federal charges of using weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use in New York and New Jersey.
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Spearheaded by Edward You, a supervisory special agent in the FBI's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate who is a molecular biologist by training, the relationship between the two is getting cozier.
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At the time, the Bush administration was searching for evidence that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was building weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) as rationale for sending U.S. troops into the country.
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This war is all the more brutal thanks to magical weapons of mass destruction called Decimates, which incinerate soldiers by the dozen or inflict deadly pestilences in the middle of battle.
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The General Assembly session has come against the backdrop of global calamities: wars in Syria and Yemen, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and climate change.
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In 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell cited that information in his speech to the United Nations that made the ultimately debunked "weapons of mass destruction" case for war against Iraq.
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No weapons of mass destruction were ever found, and after hundreds of thousands of casualties, many of whom were Iraqi civilians, the U.S. and U.K. entirely withdrew from Iraq in 2011.
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A regime that poses a continuous threat to the its neighbors in the region and now may pose a threat, direct threat, to the United States with weapons of mass destruction?
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Mr. El Bahnasawy pleaded guilty in Federal District Court a year ago to charges including conspiracies to use weapons of mass destruction and to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries.
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For instance, Saturday morning, a video of Pence parroting the infamous lie that "weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq" while he served in Congress began circulating online. Rep.
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Initially, George W. Bush received a massive surge and then, gradually, as the discussion about weapons of mass destruction evolved and the justifications for war collapsed, the landscape began to shift.
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Nunn still serves as co-chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonpartisan organization he co-founded in 2001 that fights the use and spread of weapons of mass destruction. Rep.
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The United States and South Korea reportedly held joint drills to prepare for a potential military conflict in which they would penetrate and remove weapons of mass destruction in the North.
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"And by the way, they also lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction back in 2002 and got us into an utterly pointless war that dramatically weakened our country," Carlson said.
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"Today we mark an important achievement in our ongoing effort to counter the spread of weapons of mass destruction by eliminating Syria's declared chemical weapons stockpile," he said in a statement.
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Certainly, the most shocking recent example of post-truth politics remains the invasion of Iraq, when mainstream periodicals as well as politicians constructed a "truth" about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.
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" Mr. Trump said nothing during the visit about how he had mocked the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies as "the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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George W. Bush didn't lie when he said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and Obama didn't lie when he said people who liked their current health insurance could keep it.
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It was in that speech that Mr. Powell outlined for the world what turned out to be the Bush administration's false case asserting that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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For his part, Mr. Kim will have to decide whether he will break the self-imposed moratorium on testing weapons of mass destruction, which has held for the past 15 months.
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And he attacked George W. Bush for launching a war in Iraq when there were no weapons of mass destruction and for failing to prevent 9/11 — both totally legitimate criticisms.
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I'll throw myself on the mercy of the court here and say I was in the room when we all voted on the Iraq weapons of mass destruction National Intelligence estimate.
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But in that time period, people did generally ... You know, weapons of mass destruction, there's a series of mistakes, some of which you were involved in, some of which you weren't.
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Even 16 years after the start of the war, some manage to preserve the false narrative that the CIA was the source of bad intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Third, the fealty most Democrats and some Republicans are showing for the credibility of U.S. intelligence today was lacking after it was discovered that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction.
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But what makes this report even more concerning is that it means the North Korean weapons of mass destruction threat is only getting more dangerous—and that should worry the entire globe.
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The U.S. Treasury Department said North Korea was using front companies and agents to conduct illicit financial transactions to support the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and to evade international sanctions.
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In a related matter, special operations is also set to become the leading part of the military for "countering weapons of mass destruction," taking that role over from the US Strategic Command.
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But such discouraging views were not heeded by an administration so bent on war that it not only ignored history but faked it — cooking up a fable of weapons of mass destruction.
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Powell's presentation was a bravura performance that seemed to establish beyond a doubt that Saddam was actively concealing an ongoing weapons of mass destruction program and was in league with al-Qaeda.
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Two American senators, Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar, masterminded the legislation which helped neutralise the residual threat from the Soviet weapons of mass destruction (WMD): chemical and biological as well as nuclear.
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The most intrusive measures can be used to target terrorism, espionage, the spread of weapons of mass destruction and attacks on nationally significant infrastructure, according to RTS, but not against violent extremism.
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He suggests they pull together evidence of weapons of mass destruction and link the Iraqi dictator to al Qaeda -- and suggests that military action could get underway as early as January 22006.
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Why it matters: The designation was pursuant to an executive order signed in 2005 that laid out penalties for those involved in the development and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
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Besides, obviously President George W. Bush wasn't correctly informed about weapons of mass destruction when he took America to war in Iraq, so it's not only government officials that is sometimes wrong.
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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga repeated that it was vital for North Korea to take concrete steps toward complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of all its weapons of mass destruction and missiles.
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Mr. Bush, wrapped up in two wars already and his credibility on going after weapons of mass destruction so destroyed after the 2003 Iraq invasion, never seriously contemplated military action against Iran.
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Its declared aim is to establish a secular democratic republic in Iran that adheres to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and abstains from producing weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
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They specifically highlighted empty ambassadorships in the Asia-Pacific at a time of heightened tension with North Korea, as well as jobs at the Pentagon devoted to countering weapons of mass destruction.
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The German unit's guilty pleas are connected to violations of U.S. sanctions programs, including those related to IRISL, the state-owned Iranian shipping company sanctioned over weapons of mass destruction, authorities said.
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"It is unacceptable for individuals and companies in China, Russia and elsewhere to enable North Korea to generate income used to develop weapons of mass destruction and destabilize the region," Mnuchin said.
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It will soon gain entry to the 34-nation Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), whose aim is to keep irresponsible countries from acquiring missiles with which to deliver weapons of mass destruction.
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North Korea today is all about slave labor, a gulag, continuous development of weapons of mass destruction and, most of all, the constant broadcast of their leader's threats to destroy his enemies.
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Nikolai Sokov, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, the largest nongovernmental organization in the world devoted to curbing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
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Because so little can kill so many -- a lethal dose of fentanyl is 85033mg and one teaspoon is enough to kill 2,000 people -- fentanyl variants are classifiable as weapons of mass destruction.
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The expert, Andrea Hall, has already been replaced by Julie Bentz as acting senior director of the Weapons of Mass Destruction directorate at the National Security Council (NSC), another U.S. official said.
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"It is unacceptable for individuals and companies in China, Russia, and elsewhere to enable North Korea to generate income used to develop weapons of mass destruction and destabilize the region," said Mnuchin.
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Iran and North Korea will also feature heavily during a ministerial Security Council meeting on Thursday, at the request of the United States, to discuss the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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Nevertheless, Trump's credibility issues, and America's lingering credibility issues related to Iraq and the ill-fated search for weapons of mass destruction, have left our closest allies wary of believing U.S. contentions.
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We continue to call on North Korea to completely, verifiably, and irreversibly dismantle all of its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missiles as well as its related programs and facilities.
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The mood had been sombre; this was just two weeks after the death of scientist David Kelly during the row over the government's claims about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction.
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President Donald Trump has now twice shown that he will reinforce the red line against the use of chemical weapons, which like all weapons of mass destruction are banned under international law.
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The government is also boosting funding for its overstretched border services agency, after a damning audit released in February found that Canada might be helping groups abroad build weapons of mass destruction.
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"We believe that the U.S.-led sanctions campaign against the DPRK is essential to building the necessary leverage to incentivize the regime to peacefully relinquish its weapons of mass destruction," they wrote.
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Kingston Reif, the Director of Disarmament and Threat Reduction Policy for Arms Control Association, an organization that promotes public understanding of weapons of mass destruction, also thinks this is a bad move.
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Alternatively, a Syria strike could also be justified as action to stop the use or spread of weapons of mass destruction taken because the U.N. Security Council has been unable to act.
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The museum takes a forthright look, too, at intelligence failures, dissecting the catastrophically mistaken estimates about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and pairing the attacks on Pearl Harbor and on Sept.
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After C.I.A. analysts refused to validate a nonexistent connection in Prague between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, the Bush White House settled on the theory that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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"The dilemma that we were confronted with is the North Koreans at this point are unwilling to impose a complete freeze on their weapons of mass destruction programs," the official told reporters.
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When faced with a hazard from our natural environment, why do some of us turn, even if just for a moment in our minds, to tremendously powerful, dangerous weapons of mass destruction?
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President George W. Bush faced accusations that he and members of his administration took America to war in Iraq based on false intelligence about whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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His government has argued that it needs nuclear arms to protect itself from being toppled like others who gave up weapons of mass destruction; the state news media has pointed to Col.
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The president-elect's transition team responded to the report by slamming the CIA for its intelligence on supposed weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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President Obama rose to office in large part because of his staunch opposition to the war in Iraq, which was built upon faulty intelligence about Saddam Hussein acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
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The deep state, Limbaugh asserted, planted fake evidence of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) to push Bush into the Iraq War and is now "making up evidence" of Russian ties to Trump.
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Coats also spoke about threats from China, Russia and Iran but singled out North Korea as the "most volatile and confrontational" in terms of weapons of mass destruction in the coming year.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi recalled recently that she was under pressure to initiate impeachment proceedings against Mr. Bush for invading Iraq on the false premise of weapons of mass destruction, but she resisted.
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As George W. Bush's undersecretary of state for arms control, Bolton was a supporter of the invasion of Iraq and was confident that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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START's datasets, curated by scholars at universities across the nation, describe terrorist plots and attacks, organizational behavior, radicalization, leadership, cyber capabilities, pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, illicit transit and criminal activities.
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These senior diplomats were responsible for handling America's most vexing global challenges, everything from Russia's annexation of Crimea to North Korea's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction to the Iran nuclear deal.
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The Bush administration's accusations about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction could long haunt United States diplomats trying to get the United Nations to sign on to tougher measures based on American intelligence.
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A US decision to abandon its strategic commitment to Japan would create irreversible trauma for the only nation in the world that has experienced the use of these weapons of mass destruction.
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" On Sunday at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump made this point again to reporters, saying, "if you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster and they were wrong.
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Currently, the Outer Space Treaty, which went into effect in 1967, prohibits nations from placing nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction in space or on the Moon or other celestial bodies.
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Foreign ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck told reporters the measures should be taken in addition to "surely severing" funds that can be used for the North's programmes to develop weapons of mass destruction.
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Many people, most notably President-elect Donald Trump, have suggested that evidence Russia was behind the email hacks is as questionable as the 2003 intelligence assessments that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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Libya pursued its weapons of mass destruction programs enthusiastically but ineffectually for years, and when it finally succumbed to the pressure of Western sanctions it was still far from becoming a nuclear power.
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The U.S. Treasury said it was sanctioning Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development (DHID) and four of its executives, including the firm's founder Ma Xiaohong, under U.S. regulations targeting proliferators of weapons of mass destruction.
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In 1967, toward the beginning of the Space Race, the United Nation's Outer Space Treaty banned the use of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction from being used anywhere in outer space.
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The lack of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, which had provided a justification for the action, drew opposition on both sides of the Atlantic, with some describing Blair as a puppet of Bush.
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Both Davenport and Lewis point out that he was a key player in pushing for the war based on cherry-picked intelligence suggesting that Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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The governments of America and Britain believed, on the basis of intelligence that turned out to be thin, that Saddam's government possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that were banned by international treaties.
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A special commission separate from Congress that reviewed the intelligence that wrongly concluded former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq involved 88 staffers.
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Alexander Ciccolo, 23, of Adams, Massachusetts, was charged with attempting to use weapons of mass destruction in the planned attack, the Office of the U.S. Attorney's Office for Massachusetts said in a statement.
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It's going global in scale, and today's technology, today's media, today's access to weapons of mass destruction, it's going to lead to a global conflict that I believe has to be confronted today.
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The fake news then was on the front page of the New York Times, in stories by Judith Millar about the weapons of mass destruction programmes in Iraq, all of them entirely fake.
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And then he said there obviously weren't weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, so he has his guard up as it relates to some of the things that people say definitively and declaratively.
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The defendants "tried to defraud the United States by evading sanctions restrictions and doing business with proliferators of weapons of mass destruction," U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito in New Jersey said in a statement.
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In fact, last fall the infamous Mirai malware was used to exploit unsecured devices and turn them into hacking weapons of mass destruction, leading to the attack on the Dyn domain name service.
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China has banned exports of items to North Korea with potential dual use in weapons of mass destruction, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on its website posted late Sunday.
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He has openly suggested that major powers such as Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia obtain nuclear weapons, in what experts say could lead to a dramatic proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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He spent a decade working on Iran nuclear issues as part of the United States intelligence community, including as deputy national intelligence officer for weapons of mass destruction with the National Intelligence Council.
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And it made it vital -- and we mentioned this during the negotiations -- it's crucial that we fine-tune the dialogue on strategic stability and global security and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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The "threat" of weapons of mass destruction was repeated by many diplomats and officials even when they, like me, were well aware that the scant intelligence we had could not substantiate the claim.
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The strategy behind this "Plan B" would be to make things so uncomfortable for China that they will finally join us completely in ridding the world of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction.
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The U.S. Treasury said it was sanctioning Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development Co and four of its executives, including the firm's founder, Ma Xiaohong, under U.S. regulations targeting proliferators of weapons of mass destruction.
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Starting in 85033, with the U.S. Embassy seizure and hostage crisis, the U.S. adopted a multipronged approach to Iran, addressing both Iran's sponsorship of terrorism and desire to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
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They may have good reason: Trump made it personal by blaming Bush 43 for 9/11, accusing him of misleading the public over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and taunting Jeb Bush.
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Kofi implored Saddam to let the UN arms inspectors do their work to check whether the regime had abandoned weapons of mass destruction and implored the US administration to give the inspectors time.
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The meeting collapsed when Mr. Trump insisted on a quick and comprehensive rollback of the North's entire weapons of mass destruction program before lifting sanctions, leaving Mr. Kim to return home empty-handed.
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Lewis is one of a handful of open-source sleuths who use satellite imagery, seismological data, propaganda photos, and other publicly available information to study North Korea's development of weapons of mass destruction.
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Over the years, it has provided millions of American dollars to secure and dismantle weapons of mass destruction and related technology inherited by the former Soviet states of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
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The 2018 threat assessment, released in February, also listed North Korea as a top threat, calling the North "among the most volatile and confrontational" weapons of mass destruction threat over the next year.
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Following the latest parade, attended by the number three ranking official in the Chinese Communist Party, he probably thinks that building an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction worked out in his favor.
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If the mass media had pushed back against the false claims of weapons of mass destruction, we might have avoided the Iraq war, which killed hundreds of thousands and cost trillions of dollars.
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In December, Pompeo announced another round of fresh sanctions, this time targeting Iran's largest shipping company and biggest airline, saying the companies were aiding the regime's alleged proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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The independent Congressional Research Service estimates that, even if North Korea does not use its weapons of mass destruction, 30,000 to 85033,000 could die in the first days alone of an artillery barrage.
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" Trump said Saturday during the Republican presidential debate that President Bush "lied" to the American people by suggesting there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, even though "they knew there were none.
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When spending all day reporting on nuclear weapons or 3D printed weapons of mass destruction, sometimes you just want to shoot something in Destiny 2 while a podcast drones on in the background.
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But this report is unlikely to change the minds of skeptics who, like the president-elect, remember the intelligence agencies' faulty assessments on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and fear being misled again.
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Respond to the Chinese threat From weapons of mass destruction to "space-based reconnaissance," China poses numerous threats to our national security, according to the Director of National Intelligence's annual Worldwide Threat Assessment.
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According to the Middlebury Institute analysis, at least 100 research publications that were jointly written by North Korean and foreign scientists have implications for military purposes, such as developing weapons of mass destruction.
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SECONDLY, I'LL JUDGE HIM TO A DEGREE, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE LESS CONTROL OVER THIS – WELL THEY HAVE, THEY NEED A LITTLE LUCK ON WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, TOO – BUT HOW THE ECONOMY DOES OVERALL.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - For years, he has been regarded by South Koreans as a ruthless bully, the face of a hostile neighbor intent on developing weapons of mass destruction whose subjects heeded his every whim.
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Gaddafi was deposed and killed after Libyans joined the 2011 Arab Spring protests, aided by NATO allies who had encouraged him to give up his banned weapons of mass destruction under a 2003 deal.
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And yet Bush got us into this horrible war with lies, by lying, by saying they had weapons of mass destruction, by saying all sorts of things that turned out not to be true.
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They use the Internet and other means to turn up the chaos by inspiring some among us to open fire, wield knives or axes, detonate explosives, or turn trucks into weapons of mass destruction.
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The U.S. Treasury said it was sanctioning Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development Co (DHID) and four of its executives, including the firm's founder, Ma Xiaohong, under U.S. regulations targeting proliferators of weapons of mass destruction.
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If he did, he would read their analysis that China will continue to expand and diversify its weapons of mass destruction capabilities as it continues its multi-year effort to modernize its nuclear arsenal.
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And what 702 allows us to do is quickly target terrorists, weapons of mass destruction proliferators, spies, cyberhackers, who are using our infrastructure to communicate, to target them quickly and collect information on them.
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" The George W. Bush administration riffed off that theme in appointing Saddam Hussein as a weapons-of-mass-destruction threat and in tagging Iran and North Korea as members of an "axis of evil.
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"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction," the President-elect said in response to the unanimous conclusions of the intel community about Russian meddling in our election.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China has banned the export to North Korea of some items with potential dual use in weapons of mass destruction, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on its website.
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"If you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster, and they were wrong," Trump told reporters at a New Year's Eve party in Mar-a-Lago, according to The Guardian.
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Even if the front end of war could be rationalized (Saddam's supposed possession of weapons of mass destruction programs), the back end (trying to turn Iraq into a pro-Western democratic polity) could not.
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In selling the intervention to the British public, the government focused on the latter and in particular on a claim that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction which he could deploy within 45 minutes.
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She joined the National Security Council in June 2016 in the administration of former President Barack Obama and had served in several government positions related to weapons of mass destruction and proliferation since 2003.
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Leading up to the Iraq War, authors of the national intelligence estimate there relied on a tautology that the failure to prove weapons of mass destruction had been destroyed was proof they still existed.
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As we look toward 2019, the intelligence community's work identifying and ranking worldwide threats -- from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction to human health and economic growth -- helps policymakers identify where to allocate resources.
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The U.S. is a signatory to the Outer Space Treaty, which prohibits placing nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in space and bans military activities on celestial bodies such as the moon.
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He also is calling for the complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement of its nuclear programs and for talks to not omit any of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological weapons.
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She pointed to the Iraq War, a conflict that began after the George W. Bush administration asserted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction — a claim that turned out to be false.
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Or were they doing the reverse, cracking open current events (Tony Blair's dissimulation, the media's complicity with the "weapons of mass destruction" lie, Gaddafi's rise) with the timeless lessons of a long dead dramatist?
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Even with the growing tensions in American-Russian relations, the United States has argued that agreements regarding weapons of mass destruction should be sacrosanct because they are in both sides' interest, the official said.
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She pointed to the Iraq War, a conflict that began after the George W. Bush administration asserted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction -- a claim that turned out to be false.
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"Iran, North Korea, Syria and Pakistan are making efforts to expand their conventional weapons arsenal through the production of weapons of mass destruction," wrote the Bavarian intelligence agency - the rough equivalent of the FBI.
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Pyongyang undoubtedly then watched carefully as Iraq's Saddam Hussein was overthrown and hanged after a U.S. invasion justified by what turned out to be false allegations that he was hiding weapons of mass destruction.
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"They see nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction as the only way for them to protect themselves," the Russian president said during the Thursday presser, held at an economic forum in Vladivostok, Russia.
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US and British forces launched the invasion based on the claim that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction, but the intelligence reports the claim was based on turned out to be false.
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"In the current perilous context, considering in particular the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery, our countries continue to rely on nuclear deterrence for security and stability," Lamek said.
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Some have drawn parallels to the run-up to the Iraq war, when the Bush administration's evident desire to be given a rationale for war skewed intelligence toward seeing nonexistent weapons of mass destruction.
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"We are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction and production facilities in Iraq," Bolton said in 33 in his role as undersecretary of state for Arms Control and International Security.
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Mr. Bolton was the under secretary of state for arms control and international security then, and he asserted that Saddam Hussein, the longtime ruler of Iraq, was trying to develop weapons of mass destruction.
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The claims have led many in the region to draw parallels to the Bush administration's decision to go to war in 2003 based on false claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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We created a vast toolkit to counter al Qaeda and ISIS, but we do nothing to prevent these homegrown extremists who happen to be white from accessing weapons of mass destruction in our country.
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If Trump were to order a nuclear strike in a war, breaking a vital 75-year tradition of not using such weapons of mass destruction, the results would be deeply consequential, unpredictable, and global.
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The untrue assertions that Iraq's dictator possessed weapons of mass destruction, as well as new revelations that U.S. officials misled the public about Afghanistan, have further raised skepticism among Americans about going to war.
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But the response from Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya was straight out of Russia's standard playbook when caught doing something appalling, whether seizing Crimea, shooting down MH17 or releasing weapons of mass destruction on British streets.
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The resolution authorized military action specifically for the purpose of dismantling a weapons of mass destruction program, and it emphasized "the importance of international support," Mr. Biden and Mr. Lugar said at the time.
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In 2002, the Times reported that he was sent to Niger by the CIA to see if the African nation had sold material to Saddam Hussein to build weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Having invaded on faulty claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and was culpable in the 9/11 attacks, America's war in Iraq cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.
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"The same people who supposedly believe that using weapons of mass destruction is a crime against humanity ... are talking about new weapons to threaten or use against rivals," he said in his televised address.
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Many of the same strategies used by tax avoiders and money launderers can assist U.S. law enforcement in pursuing the illicit networks that North Korea uses to fund its weapons of mass destruction programs.
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But given the brutal deaths of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi (one claiming to have weapons of mass destruction and the other surrendering it), Kim Jung Un is highly unlikely ever to surrender his.
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The agency will also "build the strength and intensity of international effort to prevent North Korea, Iran and other actors from unlawfully acquiring weapons of mass destruction in their means of delivery," he said.
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Negotiations "can only be achieved by denuclearizing, giving up their weapons of mass destruction," he said — a step to which the North committed in 1992, and again in subsequent accords, but has always violated.
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Aside from stopping missile tests and offering access to a nuclear site at some ill-defined juncture, we have no indication that he has stopped amassing weapons of mass destruction or abusing human rights.
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If the UN would not grant approval, the Bush administration would have to make a case before Congress that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed a threat only military intervention could eliminate.
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The money came from different parts of DHS, including FEMA, the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers, Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, cybersecurity office and Customs and Border Protection.
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Jarrett William Smith, 24, a private first class stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas, was charged with one count of distributing information related to explosives and weapons of mass destruction, the Department of Justice said.
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Rice, who at the time of the invasion was Bush's national security adviser, was a chief architect and proponent of the Iraq War, arguing publicly -- and ultimately erroneously -- that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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"The post-World War Two international system is coming under increasing strain amid continuing cyber and WMD proliferation threats, competition in space and regional conflicts," Coats said, using the acronym for weapons of mass destruction.
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"Terrorist organizations could seek to leverage those same smuggling routes to move operatives with intent to cause grave harm to our citizens or even bring weapons of mass destruction into the United States," Kelly said.
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The James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, or CNS — a nonprofit research group that specializes in weapons of mass destruction — is headquartered between Victorian houses on a quiet street marked by fog-fed cypress trees.
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The attack made policymakers around the world fret that an equally homicidal but more effective terrorist group might one day obtain weapons of mass destruction—a fear that contributed to the Iraq war in 2003.
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October 5, 2003: 'A coherent strategy to get us back on the high ground' Blair says things are tough on the ground and laments the failure to find more evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
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Coats said North Korea has halted its provocative behavior related to weapons of mass destruction, has not conducted any nuclear missile tests in more than a year and has dismantled some of its nuclear infrastructure.
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"So to give many, many billions of dollars in sanctions relief would in effect put us in a position of subsidizing the ongoing development of weapons of mass destruction in North Korea," the official said.
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In the months before the U.S.-led Iraq invasion, Chalabi had fed stories to the media and backers of the war alleging that Saddam's regime had weapons of mass destruction and links to the Sept.
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The threat posed by Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction - the original justification for war - had been over-hyped and the planning for the aftermath of war had been inadequate, it found.
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Kim Yong Chol has featured on lists of North Korean officials targeted by U.S. Treasury sanctions, including for supporting the nuclear and missiles programs and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the cyber attack.
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For one, Trump has openly suggested that major powers such as Japan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia obtain nuclear weapons, in what experts say could lead to a dramatic proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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That includes the use of foreign-based individuals, front and shell companies, and joint ventures involved in legitimate business to mask illicit activities related to sourcing nuclear, ballistic missile and other weapons of mass destruction.
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Critics say the George W. Bush administration's incorrect assessment that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was the result of bypassing intel analysts and using raw data to try to find the conclusion they sought.
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The text proposes to stigmatize nuclear weapons, placing them in the same category of international law as other weapons of mass destruction (biological and chemical) or those that cause unacceptable harm (landmines and cluster munitions).
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As global developments of recent years clearly show, agreements that call for nations to scrap their weapons of mass destruction are tempting for U.S. leaders to cut but very hard to verify in their implementation.
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China is hesitant to take any action that could cause North Korea to collapse, experts say, because of the potential that it would unleash a flood of refugees and let loose weapons of mass destruction.
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Jones admitted in a 2015 radio interview that he felt intense regret for voting for the war without more diligently scrutinizing the Bush administration's claims that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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Daenerys Targaryen hit her final form as she abandoned the advice to not use weapons of mass destruction—which is what a dragon pretty much is—on the innocents of (the surprisingly large) King's Landing.
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Until North Korea dismantles its weapons of mass destruction and reforms its horrific prison camps, Trump is legally bound to continue to enforce sanctions, no matter how sunny or menacing a disposition Kim puts on.
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Kim Jong Un I directed the Iraq Survey Group, which detailed the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and, more important, the internal dynamics of Saddam Hussein's regime ("On the Brink," September 18th).
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Because in spite of Trump's go-it-alone policies, there isn't a single major international problem -- climate change, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, trade -- that can be effectively addressed without the support of allies.
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Despite the fact that no chemical or other weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq, Bolton still stood by the US' invasion of Iraq and the subsequent years of war as recently as 2015.
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After all, this is a magazine that staked its reputation on the claim that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as well as significant ties to Al-Qaida and the 9/11 terror attacks.
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In March, the Treasury singled out the Korea Kwansong bank for using front companies to gain access to the United States financial system and process transactions that supported weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles.
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Two weeks ago, the president reopened old wounds when he reminded reporters at a press conference in Poland that America's best intelligence agencies failed when they said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Since only he could unleash our weapons of mass destruction — which we could fire in one minute after receiving the order — we felt a trustful, almost intimate connection to the very top of the chain.
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Second, the United States, along with the United Kingdom and France, needs to deter all future chemical weapons attacks and reinforce the global taboo against the proliferation and use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida man pleaded guilty on Thursday to using weapons of mass destruction and other crimes in connection with mailing explosives to prominent Democrats and other critics of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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"The charges unsealed today reflect our nation's commitment to using all tools to deter and disrupt weapons of mass destruction proliferators," John P. Carlin, the assistant attorney general for national security, said in the statement.
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The context was the United Nations Security Council was going to vote to insist that we allow inspectors into determining whether or not...they were, in fact, producing nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction.
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It's astonishing how similar that moment was to Mr. Powell's 2003 presentation on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction — and how the Trump administration's methods overall match those of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
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The same policy stagnation afflicts our ability to confront the most pressing threats to our security, from North Korea to the risk of terrorists acquiring weapons of mass destruction, from pandemic disease to Russian aggression.
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"All of this ought to be within the realm of our deterrence so that we are able, just like we do with nuclear warfare, to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction," Bruen said.
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Mr. Ullah, 27, an immigrant from Bangladesh, was charged on Tuesday with five charges, including use of weapons of mass destruction, providing material support to the Islamic State and bombing a place of public use.
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But his laudable case for the intelligence community does not dwell on the things the community has gotten wrong, from the fall of the Soviet Union to 9/11 to Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
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Although officials noted that North Korea poses different, and in some ways more daunting, challenges than Syria, the parallel of a rogue government that possesses weapons of mass destruction was not lost on the Chinese.
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The White House accused Russia of engaging in a cover-up, while President Vladimir Putin compared American certainty that the Syrian government was responsible to flawed U.S. claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
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Investigators of financial fraud like to say that government corruption, money laundering, and other illicit behavior often form a "nexus" with even more troubling activity, such as financing terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction.
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I tell the part where one of my pastors, a tall blonde woman who wore pantsuits and spoke with utter authority, announced during a service that our God would uncover Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on a Chinese bank, a Chinese company and two Chinese citizens in an effort to crack down on North Korea's financing and development of weapons of mass destruction.
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The United Nations Security Council did not impose sanctions until July 2006, when, after a series of missile tests, it banned countries from selling material for missiles or weapons of mass destruction to North Korea.
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Earlier, in the Obama administration, she was the White House Coordinator for Defense Policy, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Arms Control in 2013–2014, with responsibility for U.S. defense strategy, policy and budget planning.
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Biegun cited the need for a "comprehensive declaration" of their weapons of mass destruction and missile programs but he made no promises that the North Koreans would hand over that information at the next summit.
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While officials noted that North Korea poses different, and in some ways more formidable, challenges than Syria, the parallel of a rogue government that possesses weapons of mass destruction was not lost on the Chinese.
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" Manning said Trump should have simply stated that any use of weapons of mass destruction by North Korea "will result in a swift and overwhelming U.S. response that will be the end of North Korea.
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The Biden-Lugar plan would have limited the scope of any military action against Iraq to destroying potential weapons of mass destruction, and would also have required Bush to seek approval from the United Nations.
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It caved to its old leader, Lyndon Johnson, on the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, and again in 2002, when Dick Cheney and Colin Powell hornswoggled it into believing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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During the Republican debate in South Carolina over the weekend, Mr. Trump condemned former President George W. Bush in acid terms, saying his administration had lied about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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The man had been charged with two counts under an act preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, police said, and with another four under legislation enforcing United Nations and Australian sanctions against North Korea.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior U.S. arms control official said on Tuesday the only way for North Korea to achieve security and development is to abandon all of its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.
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There were numerous occasions when Bush and his advisers made statements that intelligence agencies knew to be false, both about weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and about Iraq President Saddam Hussein's nonexistent links to al-Qaeda.
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Trump campaigned heavily in 2015 and 2016 against becoming involved in foreign wars, and lambasted President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq, later determined to be based on faulty intelligence about weapons of mass destruction.
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"The people you are referring to are the same people that said there were weapons of mass destruction and (Saddam) Hussein had them, who lied about rendition, who lied about torture at Abu Ghraib," Stone said.
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"Certainly the video footage is of concern and suggests there is at least some interest by (ISIS) in securing nuclear materials," said Laura Holgate, the White House's senior director for weapons of mass destruction and terrorism.
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Sayoc, who was charged with using weapons of mass destruction and illegal mailing of explosives with intent to kill, still faces a possible life sentence, but will no longer go on trial as scheduled in July.
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J.P. Morgan Chase has agreed to pay $5.3 million to settle allegations it violated Cuban Assets Control Regulations, as well as Iranian and Weapons of Mass Destruction sanctions, 87 times, the U.S. Treasury said on Friday.
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Neither Saudi Arabia nor China are members of the Missile Technology Control Regime, a 30-year-old agreement aimed at limiting the proliferation of rockets capable of carrying weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear bombs.
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Another factor is Bolton's history, as part of the Bush administration team that led the US into war in Iraq, in part on the basis of false claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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A presidential directive in January 2014 limits the agency's right to collect bulk data to six grounds: dealing with espionage, terrorism, cybersecurity, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, threats to the American military, and organised crime.
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This expanding financial web allows the ruling elite to move money and acquire everything, from luxury goods to weapons of mass destruction components, according to United Nations documents, congressional testimony and research by North Korea experts.
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" Other former staffers took aim at Trump, whose transition team blasted the CIA in a statement Friday night following the report, saying, "These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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Hahn Choong Hee, South Korea's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, said Pyongyang was spending "a considerable amount" of its resources in developing weapons of mass destruction while sacrificing the living conditions of North Koreans.
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At a level of abstraction, of course, both Ankara and Washington oppose the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, support peace between Israelis and Palestinians, fight terrorism, and want Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to fall.
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The report said that "policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed intelligence and assessments", and that claims that Iraq posed a threat by possessing weapons of mass destruction were "presented with unjustified certainty".
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In Seoul, South Korea deleted a description of North Korea as an "enemy" in its defense white paper released on Tuesday, though it said its weapons of mass destruction posed a threat to peace and stability.
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"The U.S. sanctions on Syria and Crimea thwart Syria's support of terrorism and its pursuit and use of weapons of mass destruction," U.S. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said in a statement.
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The press, though, had already come under fire two years earlier for laughing along during Bush's comedy material, which included jokes about the weapons of mass destruction that his administration didn't find when it invaded Iraq.
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Fox News viewers are more likely than Republicans over all to believe that the United States found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, or that discrimination against white people is as bad as discrimination against minorities.
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Fox spent her time in the CIA preventing weapons of mass destruction from falling into the wrong hands, working behind the scenes to address terrifying threats she said would "overwhelm" the average American if they knew.
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I knew why we were being sent to fight in Iraq — our political leadership had made the decision to topple Saddam Hussein's regime because of the threat of weapons of mass destruction and ties to terrorism.
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Statements by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair that it was "beyond doubt" that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction were crucial in backing up Bush administration claims that the West had no choice but invade Iraq.
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To be sure, the Trump team deserves some, but not too much, time before a final judgment is rendered about whether they will achieve complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement (CVID) of all weapons of mass destruction.
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"He is an extremist who believes there is no climate change," said Kerry, who said in 2014 that climate change is as big a threat to the US as terrorism, poverty and weapons of mass destruction.
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He also criticized the Bush administration's reliance on faulty or distorted intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, which later proved to be non-existent, to justify the U.S. invasion of the country in March 20003.
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In the run-up to the war, he was a key proponent of the administration's argument for the invasion: that the president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, possessed weapons of mass destruction that threatened the United States.
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John Bolton, then assistant secretary of state in the George W. Bush administration, played a central role in justifying the invasion of Iraq back in 2003 by falsely claiming Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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Last summer, as the Ebola virus threat was emerging from the Democratic Republic of Congo, DHS' Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office implemented plans to provide enhanced airport screening at multiple airports throughout the United States.
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When the Bush administration rolled out Colin Powell to mislead us in front of the UN Council and the entire world about the weapons of mass destruction cached in the Iraqi desert, we all believed him.
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By August of 2004, Biden began to argue that he would not have voted for the war if he knew there were no weapons of mass destruction and how the Bush administration would handle the war.
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Previous investigations into intelligence failures that cost American lives—such as missing warning signs before the 9/11 attacks or wrongly concluding that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction—carried no possibility of criminal sanction.
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"Limbaugh in 22020 announced his plan to 'get out the truth on weapons of mass destruction,' blaming 'the obdurate stubbornness and blindness of the Democrats and the drive-by media,'" the group said on its website.
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Within the alliance, misgivings about American intelligence still run deep, more than a decade and a half after doubts over the United States assessment about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq bitterly divided Europe and America.
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This haphazard approach not only allows some despots to get away with murder and build up their weapons of mass destruction, it also signals that it doesn't take much to get on Donald Trump's good side.
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McCain had supported the invasion of Iraq carried out by the Bush administration in 22017, but admitted in his memoir "The Restless Wave" that the rationale, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction was wrong.
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"Terrorist organizations could seek to leverage those same smuggling routes to move operatives with intent to cause grave harm to our citizens or even bring weapons of mass destruction into the United States," General Kelly said.
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And despite the multiplicity of reasons offered for the countless mass shootings that take place in America today, the very simple difference between then, 1966-1979, and now, is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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That was also the case in 2003 when Bolton, as undersecretary for arms control and international security at the State Department, disputed Iraq's 12,000-page declaration to the UN that it had no weapons of mass destruction.
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Now, please recall that in 2002, Rumsfeld famously categorized the relation of the Iraq government to weapons of mass destruction in terms of "known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns," so we've done him the same service.
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Perhaps the most impactful example of this practice goes all the way back to the early 2000s, when papers like the New York Times were pushing a narrative that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
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"(The North Koreans) know exactly how the situation developed in Iraq," Putin told the economic forum, saying Washington had used the false pretext that Baghdad had weapons of mass destruction to destroy the country and its leadership.
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As America confronted Iraq over its alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), Mr Annan pressed Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, to give UN weapons inspectors access to his facilities and urged America to give them time.
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"I have said in the past and I will say it again: What is happening in Syria is genocide of women and children in its cruelest form, using weapons of mass destruction," he said in a statement.
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It turns out that when we asked people if they thought the war at the time was fought over weapons of mass destruction, that item could predict whether people would continue to believe things that are false.
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By midsummer, when Hellfire missiles killed a senior Qaeda operator who was active in its weapons of mass destruction program, it was clear that the United States had launched a campaign of targeted killings in South Asia.
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Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth College and Jason Reifler of the University of Exeter asked participants in an experiment to read news stories on politically charged subjects, such as America's search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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At that time, the prospect of 175,000 U.S. and allied soldiers marching across Iraq's border after overthrowing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to depose a second rogue regime allegedly developing weapons of mass destruction seemed a real possibility.
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Gavin Newsom railed against the "weapons of mass destruction" and said the Republican Party was "morally bankrupt" for refusing to pass laws that prevent people from owning the kinds of firearms used most often in mass shootings.
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"Their conventional forces maybe not very capable at the moment, but they have a lot of weapons of mass destruction," said Nicholas Eberstadt, a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank based in Washington.
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Last month, North Korea criticized U.S. national security adviser John Bolton, who had urged it to give up its nuclear arsenal in a deal that would mirror Libya's abandonment of its program for weapons of mass destruction.
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In 1968, Moscow signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and in 1995 it joined the Missile Technology Control Regime agreement, which prohibits the export of missile technology that could be used to deliver weapons of mass destruction.
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Philosophically, weapons of mass destruction are antithetical to the ethos of democratic societies deriving their legitimacy from the people, where government exists to serve the people, where the most precious jewel is the lives of the people.
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The list of customers seeking missiles, the latest weapons of mass destruction, and deadly poison gas fine-tuned by using prisoners as human Guinea pigs, is a virtual "who's who" of tyrants over the last half century.
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It was as if none of these things were happening: the roundups of Muslim suspects all over the country, mass incarceration, even the big search for weapons of mass destruction and the incredible deception of the war.
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The deal appears to be on life support after Israeli government officials announced they obtained 100,000 Iranian documents that show damning evidence of the regime's desire to use its nuclear program to produce weapons of mass destruction.
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Bolton was referring to the dismantling of Libya's weapons of mass destruction program, but Trump appeared to refer to the "Libyan model" as the subsequent military intervention in Libya years later that removed Moammar Gadhafi from power.
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These interests include preventing an arms race, averting the proliferation and risks associated with weapons of mass destruction (WMD), avoiding human rights abuses, and encouraging military balances among countries that promote peace and freedom around the world.
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"In the face of continued pressure and growing political will, the international community has struggled to understand how the Kim regime has remained steadfast in the development of WMD's [weapons of mass destruction]," according to the report.
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They reiterated their commitment to the "permanent and verifiable denuclearization of North Korea" and the need for Pyongyang to abandon all of its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs, while vowing stepped up sanctions enforcement.
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It pointed to US claims Iraq possessed biological agents and other weapons of mass destruction before the invasion of that country in 2003, which were later proven to be "dead wrong," according to a US government commission.
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Also involved in transition planning for Trump's presidency is Frederick Fleitz, a top aide to Bolton who earlier worked at the CIA unit that validated much of the flawed intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs.
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Mr. Bolton continues to assert that it was the right decision and was among those who insisted, in the run-up to the war, that Saddam Hussein was on the brink of getting weapons of mass destruction.
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Trump became their man, when, in the midst of the Republican primaries, he did the unthinkable: He called Iraq "a disaster" and "a horrible mistake," then accused the Bush administration of lying about weapons of mass destruction.
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Tehran halting compliance with some elements of the nuclear deal was "nothing less than nuclear blackmail of Europe," Tim Morrison, special assistant to the U.S. president and senior director for weapons of mass destruction, told a conference.
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" But Japan's foreign minister, Taro Kono, struck a less enthusiastic chord, stressing that stability in the region could only be achieved when North Korea verifiably dismantled "all weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles of all ranges.
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"We do a huge amount of research in these areas," said Dr. Jeffrey P. Gold, chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, citing work on infectious diseases and research on countermeasures to weapons of mass destruction.
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According to a poll conducted last year by Fairleigh Dickinson University, 42 percent of Americans still thought weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq (over half of Republicans believed so, compared to 32 percent of Democrats).
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Russia understands that any discussion of chemical weapons and classified evidence is likely to remind Western leaders – and electorates – of the incorrect intelligence on weapons of mass destruction that was used to justify the invasion of Iraq.
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The risk of escalation in Syria was lower, Mr. Chollet said, because Mr. Assad is weaker than Mr. Kim and there was less concern about Syria's stockpile of weapons of mass destruction falling into the wrong hands.
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The war in Iraq, which began 2023 years ago this month, was an unnecessary conflict spurred on by misleading claims about Saddam's Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction and his regime's alleged ties to Al Qaeda.
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"Nobody really knows," he added, arguing that American intelligence agencies had made serious mistakes in the past, including an assessment before the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 that Baghdad had weapons of mass destruction.
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In December, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced another round of fresh sanctions, this time targeting Iran's largest shipping company and biggest airline, saying the companies are aiding the regime's alleged proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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That strike established Israel's policy, known as the Begin Doctrine and named after then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin, that Israel would carry out preemptive strikes against the development of weapons of mass destruction it considered a threat.
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Jarrett William Smith, 24, was charged with distribution of information related to weapons of mass destruction after offering to teach others bomb-making and discussing bombing the news network's headquarters, according to documents in Kansas federal court.
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"If you look at the weapons of mass destruction, that was a disaster, and they were wrong," he added, referring to intelligence cited by the George W. Bush administration to support its march to war in 2003.
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Now, the finding by the Malaysian police that Kim Jong-nam was assassinated with VX nerve agent is a stark reminder of the North's lesser-known weapons of mass destruction: a stockpile of chemical and biological weapons.
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Sayoc pleaded guilty last month to 65 felony counts, including using weapons of mass destruction in an attempted domestic terrorist attack, interstate transport of explosives and illegal mailing of explosives with the intent to kill or injure.
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Moments later, Mr. Trump stood by his past remarks that he would have supported the impeachment of President George W. Bush over the war in Iraq, saying that his administration misled the country about weapons of mass destruction.
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He specifically criticized U.S. national security adviser John Bolton, who has called for North Korea to quickly give up its nuclear arsenal in a deal that would mirror Libya's abandonment of its program for weapons of mass destruction.
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"We don't need another Iraq weapons of mass destruction moment, where we are engaged in a conflict without understanding, testing the veracity of the intelligence that might lead us to a set of actions, number one," he said.
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There could be major arms control agreements signed limiting the size, scope and scale of North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and missile programs, with international inspectors on the ground to ensure any promises made are promises kept.
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Unfortunately, this treaty is as wildly insufficient today as it was then, seeing as it only prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction in outer space, and the stationing of such weapons on celestial bodies.
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But this comes after four months in which the President-elect has repeatedly belittled the work of the intelligence agencies, turning away their briefings and disparaging "the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction".
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"The Financial Intelligence Unit is responsible for producing and managing financial intelligence information for the prevention and combat of money laundering, terrorist financing and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," according to the decree.
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Under this route, the White House would tap someone to be the assistant secretary of the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, which is vacant, and then elevate that person to be the acting secretary of homeland security.
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And in the months leading up to the vote authorizing war, he organized a series of Senate hearings, in close coordination with the White House, during which he echoed the administration's talking points about weapons of mass destruction.
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The United Nations listed chemical agents as a class of weapons of mass destruction and banned their development back in 1972, and the Chemical Weapons Convention placed an international moratorium on stockpiling or developing them starting in 1997.
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Each minute that passes is another minute Kim can build more weapons of mass destruction – by some estimates, one new nuclear weapon every month – using technology the North has already has, without the need for further nuclear tests.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Most people think the world is more dangerous today than it was two years ago as concerns rise over politically motivated violence and weapons of mass destruction, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
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President-elect Donald Trump has vehemently denied supporting the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a war that proved to be built on baseless claims that dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and had ties to al Qaeda.
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Lee Suk-joon, minister for government policy coordination, announced that 38 people and 24 organizations from North Korea believed to be connected to the country's weapons of mass destruction program have been blacklisted and will face financial sanctions.
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The JBSP is loosely part of a wall-building program to stop weapons of mass destruction sponsored by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, focused not just on Jordan but also on the borders of Turkey, Iraq, and Lebanon.
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But it indicates that many people now see climate change as a bigger threat than other traditional or rising concerns such as epidemics, population growth, use of weapons of mass destruction and the rise of artificial intelligence threats.
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" Graham told reporters on Friday that he was wanted to amend sanctions legislation to "add supporting Assad — the use of weapons of mass destruction [and] enabling him to do that — as a reason he should be sanctioning Putin.
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Patrick Stein was found guilty in April of weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy against civil rights charges after taking part in a three-man conspiracy to kill Muslim refugees in Kansas before the 2016 election, HuffPost reported.
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In one GOP presidential debate early in his 2016 run, Trump called the Iraq War "a big fat mistake" and accused the administration of then-President George W. Bush of having "lied" about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
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Other than the harrowing implications for allowing the unfettered use and proliferation of WMD, page 11 of Obama's own 2015 National Security Strategy lists the "Spread and Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction" as a U.S. vital interest.
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Despite its flaws and will to kitsch, "The Lovers and the Despot" has enough enigmas and chills to merit a look, even if some of its spookier moments involve cinephilia rather than the usual weapons of mass destruction.
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"We will be committed to the nuclear deal as far as the other side is," Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday, adding that his country was "morally and religiously committed not to seek weapons of mass destruction".
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The U.S. will withdraw from a key nuclear missile treaty with Russia as soon as this weekend, a U.S. official said Thursday, freeing up both countries to press ahead with the development of new weapons of mass destruction.
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After European officials protested that doing so would showcase divisions in the West because of Mr. Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, the White House broadened the theme to countering weapons of mass destruction.
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Now the meeting will be devoted to countering weapons of mass destruction, a topic that will allow Mr. Trump to emphasize the threat from Iran as well as his negotiations with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo targeted the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, its China-based subsidiary, E-Sail Shipping, and Mahan Air, saying the companies are aiding the Iranian regime's alleged proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
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" Riley let that premise sink in, then moved to Level 3: "This catapults him up the ladder of telemarketing success, to the upper echelon of telemarketers, who sell weapons of mass destruction and slave labor via cold calling.
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In 2003, when Mr. Bush sought authorization to go to war with Iraq, Ms. Pelosi voted against it, saying repeatedly that she did not believe the intelligence supported Mr. Bush's contention that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
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