Is the M.O.A.B a weapon of mass destruction?

I'd have to say "si."

Supposedly produces a 10.000 foot cloud.

The military dubbed it the Mother Of All Bombs. They tested a live MOAB in florida last week.

Link to MOAB

Sounds like it has more bark than bite. The military wants to use it for psychological reasons. People may mistake it for a nuke!

It's what? 18,000 pounds of explosive? That's 9 tons. A 1K nuke is equavalant to 1,000 tons of tnt. No comparison at all.

Here is a video of the bomb. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2003/g030311-D-9085M.html

IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION? ummmm
WOULD BUSH LET SADDAM HAVE ONE? I THINK NOT.

mass

Yeah, not a weapon of mass destruction.

I thint Iraq will be getting a few, but not in the way i meant. LOL

The Onion is starting to sound like Ironic Times - another valuable source of quotes.

I love it.

All weapons are tools of mass destruction in a war.

yeah edgar off how we have picked up that non sequitor WoMD kinda hard to draw a line, i guess if the enemy had it, its wrong, if we have it, its not.

MOAB is not a weapon of mass destruction. It may be used against targets hidden in the underground bunkers. It also has a strong psychologic effect demoralizing the enemy.
By the way, not every kind of nuclear weapon is a WMD either. The low-yield tactical nukes are not.

please define for us WoMD

http://www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/MarApr02/MS722.htm.

that doesnt help much in ways of definition ... what is "high"? what is "large"?

the irony is that 11 september proved that a small number of terrorists could use very low-tech means - just a regular airplane - to impact "a high order of destruction and [..] destroy large numbers of people".

bit odd, really, that we are to believe that if osama bin-laden attacks the US with low-tech means, the big lesson to take from that would be that we have to stop saddam hussein from having high-tech weapons.

when exactly did osama morph into saddam, and when did the threat we should defend ourselves against morph from the terrorist hijackers osama has been proven to use to the WMDs saddam might allagedly have wanted to use in some undefined future?