UN inspectors had been in Iraq for years looking for signs of WMDs or their development. They never found them [0], so the US got rid of the inspectors and used

UN inspectors had been in Iraq for years looking for signs of WMDs or their development. They never found them [0], so the US got rid of the inspectors and used fabricated 'evidence' from an Iraqi defector as proof of WMDs. [0] https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/03/18_blix.shtml https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/03/18_blix...