H/T to @snarwani for the above
Earlier today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put on a little song and dance about Iran and WMDs intended to provide cover for Trump's upcoming decision on whether or not to scrap the Iran deal (JCPOA) on May 12th.
Of course, this isn't the first time Netanyahu aggressively pitched the U.S. on war in the Middle East. He did the exact same thing, using the exact same playbook, in the run up to the Iraq war.
Fortunately, we have video evidence of his 2002 testimony to Congress, during which he hyperventilated and exaggerated about Iraq's grave threat to the world as a result of its non-existsent WMDs. The guy was so incredibly wrong on Iraq, to such a disastrous degree, it's amazing anyone listens to him at all anymore.
What follows are two must watch video clips from Netanyahu's 2002 testimony. One of the more memorable -- and spectacularly wrong -- claims he made back then was when he proclaimed:
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