tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post2156864189596752278..comments2024-03-27T18:20:38.176-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): About those chemical and biological weaponsMinnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-64128390272151362392013-09-12T03:07:00.846-05:002013-09-12T03:07:00.846-05:00"The Army would have gotten rid of the last o..."The Army would have gotten rid of the last of their chemical weapons a long time ago except that environmentalists and NIMBYist won't let them."<br /><br />Citations please.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10619153370091469672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-79967498914561127342013-09-11T23:13:14.461-05:002013-09-11T23:13:14.461-05:00We used a lot of agent orange in Viet Nam (which c...We used a lot of agent orange in Viet Nam (which can hardly be classified as a weapon as it doesn't kill people for 30 years and then only a small percentage of the people exposed - which is not to say we should have used it, only that we weren't using it to kill people) and we used white phosphorus in Falluja. Getting white phosphorus on you is probably about as fun as breathing mustard gas, but it isn't a banned chemical weapon.<br /><br />The Army would have gotten rid of the last of their chemical weapons a long time ago except that environmentalists and NIMBYist won't let them. They wanted to ship them by train to Long Beach and put them on a boat to Johnson Atoll for incineration - guess why that never happened.<br /><br />I'm not sure why we're keeping the small pox viruses since the small pox genome has been transcribed and it could be recreated from scratch if we really needed it. As I recall, it's being kept by the Center for Disease Control, not by the Army.<br /><br />We did apparently tell Saddam where the Iranian troops were massing fully aware that he was going to gas them, which I guess makes us hypocrites. At least they were only using it against soldiers who were trying to take over their country (not that Iraq didn't start that war).<br /><br />War is a nasty horrible business that we should really learn to live without. But don't be surprised that awful things happen during every war and that they're committed on both sides because nobody on either side really wants to die for their country. It reminds me of a story a Viet Nam vet told me. It seems their fire base was about to be over run by the Viet Cong. So, the commander had the base howitzers loaded with flechette rounds which, by the Geneva Convention, can't be used on personnel. As they were depressing the howitzers to zero altitude, he told the gunners, "Aim for their canteens, boys."Bubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07367554651401120819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-71842151365058901152013-09-11T10:35:43.186-05:002013-09-11T10:35:43.186-05:00And let's not forget the ravages of Agent Oran...And let's not forget the ravages of Agent Orange on Viet Nam to this very day...<br /><br />http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/07/22/3514489/4-decades-after-war-ended-agent.htmlStan B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17381743002180926900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-32089411614909464722013-09-11T09:49:09.674-05:002013-09-11T09:49:09.674-05:00this makes my head hurt.
bad.
real bad.this makes my head hurt.<br />bad.<br />real bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-12017156420577700962013-09-11T01:00:06.531-05:002013-09-11T01:00:06.531-05:00I hope your source of information is also consider...I hope your source of information is also considered invalid, since it is not one of the official sources of the american government.Paulo Ugolinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11288626497894824632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-62519070133540887172013-09-10T20:52:06.263-05:002013-09-10T20:52:06.263-05:00Also be nice if the US joined the international ba...Also be nice if the US joined the international ban on antipersonnel mines- perhaps after we ban the usage of (radioactive) depleted uranium rounds that have continued to cause such a massive spike in severe birth defects in Iraq.<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/30/faulluja-birth-defects-iraqStan B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17381743002180926900noreply@blogger.com