UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Mar 8, 4:54 AM (ET) " With a quarter-million troops poised to swarm into Iraq, the United States and its allies moved to set March 17 as the final deadline for Saddam Hussein to prove he has given up his weapons of mass destruction."

Mmmm ... in my book a quarter-million armed U.S. troops would themselves constitute a pretty sizeable weapon of mass destruction or am I just being unAmericanly semantic?