What are 'Unconventional Weapons'

[CaptnKirk]

As the Administration has not found any evidence of 'Weapons of Mass Destruction' (yet)
there seems to be a shift in the logic to 'There were programs', or there were some 'Plans',
and now the mention of what are deemed to be 'Unconventional Weapons'

What constitutes an 'Unconventional Weapon' ? The term in itself eliminates conventional equipment,
does not inclule any combination that would be a 'Weapom of Mass Destruction' such as Nukes or Chemicals,
so what is left ? I think a 'Dirty Bomb- Radiological Contamination weapon meets the criteria, but what else ?

David Kay is pretty much non-specific and evasive on what he says, but he says they've found nothing,'
and needs 6 to 9 more months and Millions more to find what we in the past claimed we knew
'Exactly what they have and exactly where it is" (according to Powell)

The news article from Reuters

From the first paragraph:
President Bush on Friday defended his decision to attack Iraq, brushing off doubts from Americans and citing what he said was preliminary evidence from the top CIA weapons hunter that Baghdad had been developing unconventional weapons.

(Fixed link)

 

[Zebo]

It's a Bulls1t term to breed fear and get yours and the publics mind chruning twards mustard gas. Typical political speak and new wordisms.

 

[cjgallen]

Bullets made out of frozen meat?

 

[LunarRay]

Why must one be 'conventional' in the waging of war.. seems counter intuitive to me. The objective is to win not how you play given the elimination of the opposition is the objective..

Other wise the use of flintlocks ought to be the weapon of combat. Perhaps meat balls too..

 

[mk]

Maybe this?

 

[LunarRay]

MK4,
That was great...

 

[FFactory0x]

I would have to say the worst weapons would be sending the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles over to another country to take out the bad guys.

PS: I could also see there a$$'s getting shot up by ak47's and scud

 

[CaptnKirk]

Your 'Owl Gun' reminds me of a 'True Story' from the Civil War era,
where some kids stuffed a cat into a field cannon and fired it at a house.

The cat went through the front door, through a womans abdomen
killing her, and then through the wall behind her - the cat lived.

 

[lozina]

Unconventional weapons? Perhaps hot little items such as Depleted Uranium ammunition, Cluster bombs, Napalm... stuff which America has used quite recently or continue to use but as soon as another country uses them it becomes a WMD and reason to criticize them.

"I can't think of any people who think that the world would be a safe place with Saddam Hussein in power," Said GWB

What about the people in Baghdad you recently said they felt safer when Saddam was in power?

 

[Apathetic]

Generally, it's what the military refers to as NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and/or Chemical) weapons.

Dave