PMD
n.— «America’s greatest intelligence failure in Iraq was not the WMD we thought were there, but weren’t. It was the PMD we thought weren’t there, but were. PMD in my lexicon, stands for “people of mass destruction.”» —“Weapon of choice in Iraq? It’s ‘PMD’—not WMD” by Thomas L. Friedman Houston Chronicle (Texas) Dec. 8, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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