20,000 tons destroyed

On December 16th, U.S. troops completed the destruction of nearly 20 thousand tons of Iraqi weapons and munitions. According to the Army News Report, they destroyed "small-caliber ammunition, mortars, and artillery shells to larger weapons such as 1,000 pound bombs, and surface-to-air missiles".

20 thousand tons of weapons and munitions? Sounds to me like that could have resulted in "mass destruction" somewhere.