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posted by fortype2 on Tuesday July 15, @09:51PM

These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed

The weapons you are looking for are currently unavailable. The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspectors mandate. Please try the following:

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Click the Regime change button, or try again later.

If you are George Bush and typed the country's name in the address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly. (IRAQ).

To check your weapons inspector settings, click the UN menu, and then click Weapons Inspector Options. On the Security Council tab, click Consensus. The settings should match those provided by your government or NATO.

If the Security Council has enabled it, The United States of America can examine your country and automatically discover Weapons of Mass Destruction.

If you would like to use the CIA to try and discover them, click Detect weapons Some countries require 128 thousand troops to liberate them. Click the Panic menu and then click About US foreign policy to determine what regime they will install.

If you are an Old European Country trying to protect your interests, make sure your options are left wide open as long as possible. Click the Tools menu, and then click on League of Nations. On the Advanced tab, scroll to the Head in the Sand section and check settings for your exports to Iraq.

Click the Bomb button if you are Donald Rumsfeld. Google gag becomes big hit Prank message via search site mocks WMD search Tuesday, July 15, 2003 Posted: 9:13 PM EDT (0113 GMT) British pharmacist Anthony Cox poses next to his computer which displays the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" page he created. Story Tools window.onerror=function(){clickURL=document.location.href;return true;} if(!self.clickURL) clickURL=parent.location.href; RELATED Business 2.0: Waiting for Google IPO • Business 2.0: Book shows sites how to leverage Google • Cox's WMD error site ANOTHER GAG Anthony Cox has also concocted a similar gag about The New York Times, which was recently hit by a scandal over plagiarised news stories. The New York Times spoof page, also designed to look like an error message, contains an "Invent story" link that leads to an article about Jayson Blair, the Times reporter at the center of the scandal. LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A Web site lampooning the United States' inability to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has become one of the biggest hits on the Internet. The site, which is designed to look like a genuine error message -- replete with "bomb" icon -- is the top result when "weapons of mass destruction" is entered into one of the Web's top search engines, Google.com. And despite being five months old -- a real veteran by Internet standards, the site is more popular than ever and is attracting over a million hits a week. Experiencing difficulties Linking to the page from Google yields the message "These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed," and suggests that the country might be experiencing technical difficulties. Because it looks like an authentic error message, many Internet users were under the impression Google had been hacked. But despite its alarming appearance, the page is a harmless, regular site, authored by one Anthony Cox, a 34-year-old pharmacist from Birmingham, England. "It started off as a private joke for a few friends," Cox said. "Then it got passed on. People e-mailed it around and it ended up a few mailing lists. It went off and created its own life." Meant to spark debate Cox said he created the site in February before the Iraq war when the debate about alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction first arose. With the war over and such weapons as elusive as ever, Cox's site has enjoyed new-found popularity. He said the site clocked more than a million visits this week, more than in the past three months combined. Cox, who said he was not opposed to the U.S.-led war on Iraq, included several links in his message. "Click the bomb button if you are Donald Rumsfeld," read one. Doing so leads to a page on Internet book, music and video seller Amazon.co.uk offering a DVD version of the classic 1963 anti-war film "Doctor Strangelove." Cannot find weapons or CIA Error Iraqi Explorer Find more on Weapons of Mass Destruction.

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