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OP Recent news stories reports that the UN inspectors have been unable to find any 'smoking guns' in Iraq. Now, I'm confused - I thought a smoking gun is a term to describe signs (in this case) of a weapon that has already been let off, but I thought they were searching for signs of weapons of mass destruction being made and developed, not used?
Anyway, surely the first sign of the Iraqis using a weapon of that nature would be (heaven forbid) a large crater somewhere in Europe or America??
Is this just bad reporting/an over-eagerness by politicians and the press to trendy soundbytes and sensationalist reporting or are the UN team out to look for the wrong thing? (or have I just got the wrong end of the stick?!)
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