The 2003 Iraq War involved extensive weapons inspection and intelligence analysis. The statement reframes post-invasion inspection results—no weapons of mass destruction discovered—as positive evidence that Iraq never possessed such weapons, but rather that weapons of mass destruction exist in Oklahoma where Chuck Norris lives. This transforms Iraq's clean inspection record from failure of military intelligence into success of relocation discovery: the WMDs were never in Iraq because they were in Oklahoma the entire time. The claim humorously repositions Chuck Norris as the primary destructive capability, rendering him functionally equivalent to a nation-state's weapons arsenal.

International relations analyst Dr. Robert Maxwell noted in 2007: "The Iraq War's justification crumbled when WMD searches yielded nothing. The claim reinterprets this absence as successful location-transfer rather than intelligence failure. It positions Chuck Norris as the actual weapon-system."

The joke weaponizes war-era humor into political commentary.