On the April 3 edition of his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck claimed the war in Iraq “was never about Saddam Hussein or weapons of mass destruction. I mean, that was a bonus. It was always about getting to Iran, the head of the snake and the center of evil in the modern world.”

Media Matters for America noted Beck’s previous suggestion that the Bush administration’s stated justification for going to war — that former Iraq president Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction - was, in fact, a cover for its real intention of “getting to Iran.” On the July 24, 2006, edition of his CNN Headline News program, Beck stated the administration’s weapons of mass destruction claim was “real” but “just gravy.” He later added, “We went into Iraq three years ago to prevent World War III, as nuts as this might sound, to prevent the evil Iranian ideology from spreading across the region.”

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