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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (19775)	12/14/2003 7:34:23 AM
From: mcg404	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81101

GT, <The missing WMD generated by the Russian's have been public knowledge for several years.> My mistake. I understood you to be referring to the alleged WMDs in Iraq since it was the subject of the preceding discussion. Or are you suggesting there is a connection between the russian nukes and Iraq? And at the same time, are the 'missing' russian nukes very much like the Iraqi WMDs...not missing so much as not properly accounted for? <How many humans does it take to make a "mass"...just so we are on the same page about how much destruction constitutes "mass" and how much destruction is only an "oops..."> A fair question. I wonder if we don't agree that 'WMD' is just a propaganda term? It is my understanding that chemical weapons are viewed by many military experts as relatively ineffective for killing large (mass?) numbers of the enemy. Seems we should really be talking about WOT - weapons of terror. Do you think G. Bush might agree with changing the name? (since this is how he is using these weapons...against the american people) <And how much time must lapse in between...> sorry, you've lost me with this. <Serious stuff this WMD issue> not always: Newsflash: The Search is Over, Massive piles of WMD's Found in Iraq US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a news conference today to announce that teams of US inspectors had found numerous Weapons of Minimum Destruction(WMD), all over the countryside of Iraq. "We are horrified to report," Rumsfeld told a breathless Washington press corps, "that we found piles of these WMD's in all areas we went in the country. Machine guns, AK 47's and rocket propelled grenades are heaped everywhere. These weapons are capable of causing terrible injuries, even death, when they used against humans and other living things." Asked by one skeptical journalist if he didn't mean to say "Weapons of Mass Destruction", Rumsfeld responded testily, "Heavens no, what do you think we are, barbarians? It's unthinkable that any country would use weapons of mass destruction. We never accused Iraq of any such thing. Weapons of minimum destruction are justification enough to take strong action against any regime that would dare employ them." melbourne.indymedia.org