Metaphor alert

Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman in an email to supporters today:

The entire country of Iraq was a weapons stockpile. So far, 243,000 tons of weapons and explosives have been secured and destroyed.  In addition, 163,000 tons of weapons and explosives have been secured and are awaiting destruction.

Rudy Giuliani at the Republican convention (8/30/04 -- flagged by Bryan):

Frankly, I believed then and I believe now that Saddam Hussein, who supported global terrorism, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of his own people, permitted horrific atrocities against women, and used weapons of mass destruction, was himself a weapon of mass destruction.

Somewhere, an English professor is dying...

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[Henry]

From the Knight-Ridder reporters who actually talk to people who know what's going on:

Al Qaqaa was one of some 900 known weapons sites in Iraq that U.S. experts estimated held more than 650,000 tons of munitions.

The Defense Department contends that the U.S.-led military coalition has destroyed or secured 402,000 tons of munitions. That leaves at least 248,000 tons still unaccounted for.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10042037.htm

Forget metaphors; call in a third grade arithmetic teacher.

[Henry]

From the Knight-Ridder reporters who actually talk to people who know what's going on:

Al Qaqaa was one of some 900 known weapons sites in Iraq that U.S. experts estimated held more than 650,000 tons of munitions.

The Defense Department contends that the U.S.-led military coalition has destroyed or secured 402,000 tons of munitions. That leaves at least 248,000 tons still unaccounted for.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/10042037.htm

Forget metaphors; call in a third grade arithmetic teacher.