NYT article on not finding any weapons of m--wait, what are they??

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Draft Report Said to Cite No Success in Iraq Arms Hunt
By DOUGLAS JEHL and JUDITH MILLER
Published: September 25, 2003

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 — An early draft of an interim report by the American leading the hunt for banned weapons in Iraq says his team has not found any of the unconventional weapons cited by the Bush administration as a principal reason for going to war, federal officials with knowledge of the findings said today.

(emphasis mine obv)

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/international/middleeast/25WEAP.html?hp

Interesting article, if unsurprising, about the not-finding of [xx].

[xx]: but what is the NYT calling them again? They're not WMDs, they're "unconventional weapons"!! Does anyone else think this is significant? Was I just not paying attention, did the Times always stick with the older appellation and not the Bush rebranding of "WMD"? Coincidence? read-btw-the-lines editorial?

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

only instance of term "WMD" is in quotes from Rice; same story in the Post uses "WMD." maybe it's nothing, but man did the old term stick out.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

'weapons of mass destruction' is hardly a bush coined term

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 25 September 2003 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

is anyone else weirdly relieved somehow that the 'rope a dope' theory floated over the spring and summer didn't bear fruit?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:00 (twenty-two years ago)

that term's attached to a number of difft things out there, do you mean the idea of the administration keeping any weapons finds hush hush until until they could be shown for maximum gain?

and no it's not "bush coined," show me, where did I say that? < /you>

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 25 September 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

When I think "unconventional weapons", I think of stuff like a can of flour and an egg beater or a tennis racket.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

whenever Sky News has been talking abt WMD recently they've been showing some footage of vehicles taken through the heat haze in a desert. One of the vehicles looks like a kebab van painted khaki.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

The administration (as well as the American mainstream media) are frighteningly fond of weighted words and constant repetition.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 25 September 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Unconventional Weapons:
http://www.greenarrowfansite.com/resource/1950/Superboy.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.kitestailstoys.com/catalog/toys/images/potatogun.jpg

― Marcel Post (Marcel Post), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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