FWIW this isn't any more absurd than the original weapons of mass destruction.

For the young ones: Bush wanted us to believe that Saddam was trying to get nuclear weapons. The only problem is: he wasn't. But Saddam had used chemical weapons during the Iran/Iraq war. So Bush decided to equate chemical and nuclear weapons. And thus the "weapons of mass destruction" were born. What is a weapon of mass destruction? Anything Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld wants it to be!