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- noun a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons)
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Examples
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HatefulReligiousSupremacy is the only imminent-threat 'wmd' in existence.
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April 14th, 2006 at 1:11 pm clearly bush has reacted to iraq’s so-called wmd threat very differently than he has — up to now, anyway — to iran’s far more real nuclear threat. why?
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Sudan; Somalia; Israel etc, then the PEN is the 'wmd' of choice …. as can be seen at Lisbon/EU and the coming 'outing' of global governance at Copenhagen where, based on the 'thin air' principle of 'carbon credits', we will, if 'they' get their wet dream, be 'global citizens' in the Holy Roman Fourth Reich Empire (Babylon reincarnated) that's been the plan all along.
British Blogs 2009
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Sudan; Somalia; Israel etc, then the PEN is the 'wmd' of choice …. as can be seen at Lisbon/EU and the coming 'outing' of global governance at Copenhagen where, based on the 'thin air' principle of 'carbon credits', we will, if 'they' get their wet dream, be 'global citizens' in the Holy Roman Fourth Reich Empire (Babylon reincarnated) that's been the plan all along.
Guy Fawkes' blog 2009
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Please fellow democrats bring your wmd to those metings
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Bush does not deserve any credit for saying that wmd in terrorist hands is dangerous.
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If you lie enough some people will believe. wmd anyone? j.r. December 2nd, 2009 6: 55 pm ET
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I suppose that want a mulligan on that whole Iraq flower greeting and wmd slam dunk ….
Think Progress » VIDEO: The GOP’s Solution To Everything — Let’s ‘Start Over’ 2010
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We are critical of the wmd theory and nation building strategy of Bush.
Matalin: With Afghan surge, Obama resembles George W. Bush 2009
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Funny how this guy never yelled anything while Bush and Cheney were lying through their teeth about the supposed wmd of Iraq.
GOP congressman heckles Obama during health-care speech 2009
bilby commented on the word wmd
"Pretexts for invading and occupying Iraq went from:
* WMDs;
* to removing a dangerous dictator;
* to establishing democracy in the Arab world;
* to preventing a civil war;
* to needing a colonial military victory to retain our global superpower status;
* to reassuring regional regimes they can rely on us for protection; and
* to proving America can fight and defeat 'terrorism.'
However, the longer the conflict continues (as well as the Afghan one), the less credibility any argument holds. The more likely an occupied people will grow more restive and reassertive. A similar likelihood that popular resistance will grow throughout the Middle East, Eurasia and elsewhere. The greater the economic and political cost. The less able a depleted military will be able to sustain foreign wars, and less willing the US public will put up with them. Yet they continue..."
- Stephen Lendman, 'Reviewing Zionism, Militarism, and the Decline of US Power', baltimorechronicle.com, 16 Oct 2008.
November 6, 2008
rolig commented on the word wmd
You read the Baltimore Chronicle, bilby? That was the paper where I first got paid for writing.
November 6, 2008
frindley commented on the word wmd
My first paid article appeared in the Brisbane Courier Mail.
November 6, 2008
bilby commented on the word wmd
Not regularly, rolmonster, though I do noodle around online newspapers of all stripes.
I suppose my first rewarded article was in 'The Star', a campus newspaper of the then Melbourne College of Advanced Education, where I received free tickets to a movie in return for writing a review. It was something by Fassbinder, apparently forgettable :-7
My first paid article was for the Indonesian daily, Republika. I became their Australian correspondent for about 6 years.
November 6, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word wmd
What is your emoticon smoking, bilby?
November 13, 2008
bilby commented on the word wmd
It's just a crooked smile. Like, in this case, when I'm indulging in a Nostalgic Moment. At other times it's brought on by trying to affect a Lancashire accent.
November 13, 2008