[EliRivers]

WMD charges don't help either. A pipe-bomb has been considered a WMD for a decade now. The term has been cheapened so much some schools ban the term as useless and carrying almost no information.

[theorique]

Well, it explains why we invaded Iraq after the fact.

If a mere pipe bomb or IED is considered WMD, then Iraq was FULL of them. Chemical or biological weapons, not so much.

[mpyne]

A pipe bomb has been legally considered WMD for almost two decades now. They didn't change the meaning for 9/11 or Iraq.

[illuminate]

"The term has been cheapened"

The solution here is to stop thinking that your definition has anything to do with the long-time legal definition of WMD.