• Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      IIRC, that's basically how it went with the WMDs Saddam supposedly had.

      "Where's the gas? You don't have any that we can find, but we know you should have some because we said so"

      • determinism2 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Breaking: Leaked aerial photographs depict steel cylinders located somewhere within the Asian continent. State department experts indicate that this is damning evidence of a genocide in the act. No we did not ask any followup questions.

    • spez_hole [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      That's kinda already in the OP: "China's information is locked down so tight that our experts must be correct." Meanwhile we would never let the UN inspect our migrant camps.