O What Fun We Have With CNN

The UN could not find any of the following weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. However, the good folk in the media are all too willing to list them as absolute fact in their snazzy charts summing up the various weapons involved in this war.

The chart below has been tactically extracted from one found on CNN. In our ongoing emergency media watch, we at PBBBS, in conjunction with the good folks at PBBBS News Corps, felt it necessary and informative to focus on various and seemingly mundane aspects of this chart. (Note: Links within the chart have been disabled by the editors to protect our readers from propaganda.)

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
	COALITION	IRAQ
	• Chemical and biological defense • Nuclear, biological, chemical detection • Tactical nuclear warheads	(Note: Some images of the agents Iraq is suspected of having are graphic. Viewer discretion is advised.) • Anthrax • Botulinum • CS • Cyclosarin • Gangrene • Ricin • Rotavirus • Sarin • Sulfur Mustards • Tabun • Trichothecenes • Vx • Wheat smut

As per usual, the chart is subheaded WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Note the imbalance. Rest assured that the coalition (This term is noteworthy in and of itself. They might as well say the US) contains quantities of all of these weapons listed here.
The only destructive weapon listed in the COALITION column is nuclear warheads (no laughing matter, especially considering G. Bush would probably authorize their use without batting a lash over one of his dead dead eyes). All others are precautionary or defensive measures. However, the media seems very willing to accept the fact that when these defensive devices are discovered in Iraq, it is evidence of their possession of biological or chemical weapons.