1. Kevin J. Ayotte is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, California State University , Fresno. A small portion of this article is adapted from the author's dissertation, The Rhetoric of Terror: Weapons of Mass Destruction in American Foreign Policy Discourse (2003, University of Pittsburgh), directed by John Poulakos. Parts of this project have been presented at the University of Colorado, Boulder, September 29, 2003, the 2006 National Communication Association Conference in San...