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However, this is not a film solely about WMDs; it expands into investigating what triggered the descent into civil war and insurgency that followed the invasion.

But as with Saddam Hussein's mythical WMDs, it seemed scarcely to matter when there was no there there.

If the U.S. never invaded Iraq under false pretenses of nuclear WMDs, it is likely that the West would have already struck at Iran.

As for the credibility of Western government claims about WMD, it is worth recalling that they tolerated Saddam using poison gas on a mass scale.

You might think that since we were clearly misled about Iraq's supposed WMD, it doesn't much matter exactly how this happened.

His own generals were far too scared of him to risk breaking the bad news.As for those weapons of mass destruction (WMD), it seems that some senior members of the ruling circle never stopped believing, even after the war, that Iraq had these, even though Saddam himself knew otherwise.

His car registration plate is M16 WMD ("It's a sort of up yours!"), and when I use the word "bollocks" a few minutes later, his face lights up and he is off again: "That was one of my great quotes!" At last week's Fifa congress he told a journalist that Blatter's speech was bollocks.

Turns out it wasn't Iraq with the WMD, it wasn't Iraq with ties to Al Qaeda: it was Iran.

Powell held up a little vial and told the world that, had that vial really contained WMD, it could kill tens of thousands.

Al-Qaeda has often said it would use WMD if it got hold of them, and it appears that Ayman al-Zawahiri, the organisation's leader, has encouraged his sympathisers to join the Syrian opposition.

Chilcot says the intelligence community worked from the start on the misguided assumption that Saddam had WMDs, saying it was "ingrained" in their thinking.