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Weapons of Mass Destruction

One of the purposes that the US administration had in attacking Iraq was to get rid of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Now we know that at one time he had them because he used then against the Kurds and the Iranians. So the US and Britain attacked and overthrew the Saddam regime and looked for those weapons of mass destruction but did not find any, at least not yet. He got rid of them long ago or a short time ago, or he got rid of them while the inspectors were doing their job, or maybe he had moved or hid them, although that seems most likely. But the failure to find them has turned out to be a disappointment in Persian Gulf War II and its aftermath. This failure to find them has inspired me to write two items - a song and a nursery rhyme. The nursery rhyme goes:

The US Army
Went to Iraq
To find for George Bush some weapons of mass destruction.
But when they got there,
Iraq was bare,
And so for George Bush they found none.

In this rhyme, say "weapons of mass destruction" fast and all at once as though it were a single syllable word such as "war". Same way with the song:

Oh where oh where are those weapons of mass destruction
Oh where oh where can they be
Where's that gas and those germs and the glow in the dark
Oh where oh were can they be.