Weapons of Mass Deception

Eli has a post over at Left I that bears further coverage, so...

More phantom weapons of mass destructon

Tom Brokaw and Joe Lieberman in last night's Democratic debate:

BROKAW: Senator Lieberman, do you think that Libya would have given up its weapons of mass destruction if the United States had not invaded Iraq?

LIEBERMAN: It's a very important question. I seriously doubt whether Libya would have given up its weapons of mass destruction if we had not overthrown Saddam Hussein. I seriously doubt if the Iranians would have allowed international inspectors come in and looked at their nuclear weapons sites if we had not done that.

Just one (or two) little problem(s). Libya did not have any weapons of mass destruction to "give up" (they did renounce their intention to have any in the future). And Iran did not have any "nuclear weapons sites," they have nuclear power plants (under construction, not yet functioning). Rather a different thing, to put it mildly.