WMD = Whupped My Dad

I think I've figured out a key to better understanding U.S. foreign policy, especially as it relates to Iraq. First "WMD" was cited as the reason for going to war immediately rather than later, and the ongoing search for "WMD" is the reason we have to keep our troops there since we "won".

This all makes much more sense once you realise that "WMD" doesn't stand for "Weapons of Mass Destruction". After all, there probably were none, and we're clearly not going to find any.

No, "WMD" is an abbreviation for "Whupped My Dad". The president - famous for the clever nicknames he assigns as a subsitute for learning people's real names - came up with this one for Saddam Hussein, whose less-than-total defeat arguably cost his father the election in 1992. So when George the Less insisted that we had to invade Iraq immediately because of "WMD", he was talking about Mr. Hussein, and now he doesn't want to pull out of Iraq until we find ol' "WMD".

See, foreign policy is easy to understand if you just know what all the alphabet soup stands for!