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To: presidio9
Surface to air missles are a weapon of mass destruction.

No they're not. they're weapons of airplane destruction. Not even the UN thinks of Stingers as "weapons of mass destruction".

It's amazing how a term can be abused and misused by the general population once it escapes into public use. There are three recognized types of WMD's...nuclear, including both explosives and radiological weapons, biological (germs warfare), and chemical (poison gases and such).

Napalm is not considered a WMD, even though it was used to kill hundreds of thousands of people in WWII.

Stingers? A flying firecracker, nothing more.

65 posted on 06/04/2003 10:08:26 AM PDT by Ten Megaton Solution
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To: Ten Megaton Solution
Name me one other thing a civilian would use a stinger missle for, other than to shoot down an airliner.

oh, please say "alien attack," please say "alien attack," please say "alien attack"...

70 posted on 06/04/2003 10:56:31 AM PDT by presidio9 (Run Al, Run!!!)
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