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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-04-04 05:09 PM
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48. Not to mention the WMD "definition creep"
The only true WMDs are nukes and possibly some very sophisticated chemical weapons - neither of which Iraq ever had. (I do not count Saddam's wet dreams about weapons he wished for, so the Bushbots might disagree with me here)
By the time the hunt for WMD's had begun - which was the first day of the invasion - the Bushbots had managed to fuzz up the definition of WMDs so thoroughly that even a single corroded canister of mustard gas would probably have had them proclaiming they had found WMDs. But mustard gas, even by the barrel full, is not a WMD. It would not be an effective weapon against large population centers (the only correct definition of a WMD). Likewise anthrax, ricin, sarin, etc. Only nukes meet the definition of the weapons that are known to have been developed and tested.
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