[RWG]

While important, it's not a WMD...of course it is. Is the missle a toy or a vehicle for sight seeing? If it weren't a WMD why did they hide it?

[Cagey]

Plans for the surface-to-surface missile were one of the regime's most closely-guarded secrets and were unknown to United Nations weapons inspectors

Technically, they found plans for a smoking gun. This article may be reaching a bit far.

[CyberAnt]

It's just the terminology - people are equating WMD with barrels of toxic chemicals, or warheads filled with toxic chemicals. They forget, the chems are no good without a delivery system.

[Dog Gone]

Is the missle a toy or a vehicle for sight seeing? If it weren't a WMD why did they hide it?

If you'll read the story carefully, they hadn't even built it yet.

A weapon of mass destruction is considered to be a nuke, chemicals, or a biological weapon. Not a missile. Keep in mind that the Iraqis who volunteered this information denied that it was going to carry a WMD.

I don't see any basis for characterizing this as a WMD. Where am I wrong?