In a notably catty column, Maureen Dowd described her colleague as a "woman of mass destruction"—a mild rebuke compared with what Times people say in private.This should serve as a powerful warning to the Republicans.
Mr. Curtis's brief posting said, "The principal characteristic of biological agents that could make their use attractive to terrorists is their extreme toxicity, even compared to other weapons of mass destruction".
Nuclear weapon possessors are, of course, not ignorant of the true effects of nuclear weapons, just as they are not ignorant of the double standard that is afforded these weapons compared to other weapons of mass destruction.
It is for this reason that Warren Buffett was doubly right to compare the new financial products to "weapons of mass destruction" — first, because they are lethal, and, second, because no one knows how to track them down.
The Lebanese government today angrily denounced Israeli claims that Syria has supplied Hezbollah militia with Scud ballistic missiles, comparing it with the misinformation about weapons of mass destruction in the leadup to the Iraq war.
But that story is pretty tame compared to an Arkansas doctor with a love for weapons of mass destruction or a Delaware pediatrician with a basement dungeon!
The Senate Intelligence Committee was supposed to answer that question years ago by comparing what officials claimed about Iraq — its missing weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein's hyped ties with Al Qaeda — with what they knew.
The Trump transition team responded by mockingly comparing the CIA assessment to the agency's historic misjudgment on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Kim Dotcom has compared the US department of justice charges against him and his Megaupload website to the claims about weapons of mass destruction in the lead-up to the war against Iraq.
Weapon of mass destruction.
(See weapon of mass destruction).
