I think most people outside the forces heard the 45 minute claim from that bastion of truth and stability The Daily Heil.

Teribums. We do know that Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction. We will never know what would have happened if we had not entered that war, or any other for that matter. The point about Hussein was that he was, to go back to an earlier point, sabre-rattling. All politicians do it leading up to a war. The Kaiser would be no exception.