There were allegations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction
and considering that Iraq famously used weapons of mass destruction
during the Iran-Iraq War, such an allegation was not
preposterous.
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By claiming Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, making it a threat to national security
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There is no definitive answer to this - only theories. There was
the claim that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction. The
Bush administration later abandoned that claim, and didn't offer
anything in its place.