MSNBC "Officials: US didn't find WMDs, despite claims

H/T Mark

Well from the headline, you would learn that a US officials said these weren't really WMD, right?

But right there in the article: msnbc

"We were able to determine that [the missile] is, in fact, degraded and ... is consistent with what we would expect from finding a munition that was dated back to pre-Gulf War," an intelligence official told NBC. "However, even in the degraded state, our assessment is that they could pose an up-to-lethal hazard if used in attacks against coalition forces."

So the first thing I notice is that the anonymous source was talking about a missile, not the entire WMD find. One missile, twisted by MSNBC to sound like they are talking about the entire 500 munitions.

Okay, getting past this attempt to mislead, we see that the official says it still could be "up-to-lethal". I don't know if this classification includes lethal, but to get into the weeds, if it is less than lethal to an adult, it could still be lethal to a child. Or it could cause major damage to several individuals. As I said before, this stuff does not degrade into wine.

So in fact, despite the headline, even degraded, it is still as much of a WMD as it would be fully functional, it is just less effective.

So they were WMD, despite this headline.

Comments

[Mark Eichenlaub]

It's funny how the title of the story is literally the exact opposite of the truth, isn't it?

[reverse_vampyr]

They were WMDs, unless you are a liberal. In which case these are no big deal. They're old, they're not the right kind of WMDs, they are not enough to qualify, etc. Libs are still able to dismiss these facts through whatever causes them to believe in Liberalism in the first place.