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Thread #51917   Message #792822
Posted By: Bee-dubya-ell
28-Sep-02 - 01:32 AM
Thread Name: BS: What the heck are WMD's... Seriously
Subject: RE: BS: What the heck are WMD's... Seriously
Yeh, prob'ly kill all the possums too. Maybe they kin send one a them WMD's down here and get ridda these damned armadillos.

But seriously folks.... How come only countries that happen to be on America's shit list have "weapons of mass destruction"? You'll never hear any of the nuclear, chemical or biological weapons in the arsenals of Israel or France or India or even Russia referred to as WMD's. That makes "weapons of mass destruction" not a euphemism as Nerd stated, but exactly its opposite. A euphemism is a polite way of saying something bad. As the WMD term is only used in reference to "The Bad Guys" it's more of a perjorative than a euphemism. Calling the nuclear missiles in the U.S. arsenal "weapons of defense" is the real euphemism.

Bruce