Cutting USAID was a weapon of mass destruction. Estimated 500.000 to 1.000.000 deaths. Source

I think people are missing something pretty important here: this creates justification to use the US military against its citizens. Sure, it may just be to justify an invasion of Venezuela, but I suspect it's more substantial than that. Saying the cartels have WMDs within the United States manufactures a threat that the military needs to fight. These "WMDs" are in every state and every city. They have manufactured a credible reason to use the military anywhere in the US against any group of people because it's so pervasive.

Trump ain't wrong here but those are just words. He's already fueled a lot of drug deaths by his policies. You could say that eating too much processed food is a weapon of mass destruction as well, looking at the death stats ( at least the stats that are not hidden under the new régime ).

Sounds like you have a wmd that's easy for police to plant on people.

Imagine getting charged with a personal amount of WMDs

If I'm ever in combat, I hope like hell the only things they drop on me is fentanyl.

Temu Iraq War

If this is a preamble to justify a new decade of carpet-bombing a third world country again: I sort of really hope it the final straw that finally gets NATO to intervene; treating the USA as a global threat. I know it's just a pipe dream, but I can dream nonetheless

drone strikes on Pfizer and Merck facilities are imminent! The Sackler family are being sent to Gauntanamo!

Faithless 

"Mass Destruction"

Whether long range weapon or suicide bomber

Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction

Whether you're soar away sun or BBC 1

Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruction

You could a Caucasian or a poor Asian

Racism is a weapon of mass destruction

Whether inflation or globalization

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction

Whether Halliburton or Enron or anyone

Greed is a weapon of mass destruction

We need to find courage, overcome

Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction

That was 2004 

Why does everything have to be so extreme. I tired of this chaos.

Fentanyl is, if not the most common, a very common opiate used in hospitals, with virtue of being the cheapest. It's overdose danger, is that a normal dose is of much smaller size, and then so is a fatal one. Usually GOP/CIA is pro addicts and overdoses because you need to vote GOP harder to punish them harder.

Instead of lying for "easy to win wars so that the US/Trump can look tougher and/or perhaps cancel elections", if opiates were a real issue, then programs including forced detox, but free voluntary detox too, A pharma incentive to make better non-addictive pain relief (aspirin/tylenol/advil), or making a deal with Taliban to produce "state opium farms" so that our hospital system (source of street fentanyl through theft) can go back to "safe opiates".... are all direct solutions to a stated problem instead of false tariffs and war excuses.

Fuckin LOL. That’s too on the nose man. It’s Iraq all over again

So America is harboring WMDs? Quick somebody assemble a coalition of the willing to liberate them.

I fly an EMS helicopter. We use fentanyl every day for pain management.

This world is a joke

the cartels and foreign networks that have turned fentanyl into the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45

why even add this? the cdc's data doesn't even mention it in the top 10 causes.

Isn't this the drug that cops in America freak out at if you merely mention it?

So is FUCKING LITTLE BOYS. Put this closet cock sucker in a box with no door.

does this man know how much of a joke he is? or is it lost on him?

Cool throw the Sachlers in prison for war crimes then. The opiod epidemic stems from them.

If they really cared about drug addiction and the consequences the sacklers would be in prison and he wouldn’t be pardoning every drug trafficker that gives him a bribe

The US is now post-parody.

Can't wait to go to work tomorrow and accuse our anesthesiologists of war crimes!

So, anybody that's ever knowingly handled, trafficked or deployed a Weapon of Mass Destruction on US soil is going to be hunted down by anti terror agents, I'm assuming?

Doctors, nurses, delivery companies, pharmaceuticals manufacturers, etc, yes?

Not to mention the number of countries in the world and free agents that now have access to huge numbers of WMDs, all of whom now need to be closely monitored and the US must change its relationship with all of them, given the seriousness of what they now possess.

And obviously, anybody that's ever publicly deployed a WMD anywhere will have to be detained if they attempt to enter the USA. Can't have potential terrorists wandering about the country after all, not if they're on record as committing the unspeakable act of using a Weapon of Mass Destruction on a peaceful public populace.

This is just a flimsy justification for America's military invasion of Canada, given their repeated, official accusations from the very highest levels in their government, that Canada is flooding huge amounts of fentanyl into the USA.

To claim it is a WMD, after claiming Canada is attacking their country with it, and then to not take any military action against Canada to defend against these WMD attacks, would be admitting military defeat.

Has the USA admitted that Canada has bested them on the field of battle? Are they too scared to meet Canada head on? Sure seems like it.

The stupid! It burns!

JFC but I am so goddam tired of uttering the words “What a fuckin’ moron,” every time I read about him.

So, can some folks here correct my ignorance. I was under the impression that most of the fentanyl entering the US is being manufactured in China. It doesn't sound crazy to me that this is some sort of conspiracy to weaken the American public.

I'm not sure why we can't just decriminalize drugs so folks and do heroin in peace. Or maybe fix some of the problems that are causing people to do drugs.

When you think back... WMD was what justified the war in Iraq. Now he says this drug is a WMD and is coming in to USA from Canada. Is this his push to justify a full scale attack on Canada?

This is why only the legislature should be "designating" things like "terror groups" and "WMDs" .

Edit: A view I think should be pushed on this is that anti-terror laws are just a type of war mobilization against a stateless enemy. Each time a group is declared war on (aka designated a terrorist) there should both be a vote in the legislature per the constitution and the government should have a clearly written scope and budget for such a war, including a tax levy

He will use the to justify a war. Which he will then use as an excuse to not have elections (because he saw Zelenskyy do it.) But I bet a cheeseburger takes him out before any of that.