Chemical weapons

[jan larsen]

I DID read it, but wouldn't comment on such an absurd postulate. "After all it's just text at the end of the day. - Colin Davies "For example, when a VB programmer comes to my house, they may say 'does your pool need cleaning, sir ?' " - Christian Graus

[Brit]

Jonny Newman wrote: I still think its [edit]funny* ironic[/edit] that the US is so anti-WMD when it is the only country to have used them against another country. (Hiroshima Nagasaki) Har har. Aren't we funny. The Germans were the first to use chemical weapons (WWI). Biological weapons are very, very old - going back to when armies would catapult corpses (dead from contagous diseases) over the walls of cities they had under seige. In more modern times, the Japanese in WWII put infectous disease into the water supply of the Chinese. And, despite the fact that the US has been involved in a number of wars since the atomic bomb was dropped, the US hasn't used atomic weapons in those wars (example: Korea and Vietnam). The proliferation of nuclear weapons means a continuous lowering of the situations in which they will be used. The US has shown its resistence to using nuclear weapons in the case of Vietnam. No one can expect that other countries will show the same degree of restraint. ------------------------------------------ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin In an encampment expecting daily attack from a powerful enemy, self-preservation is paramount to all law. - Thomas Jefferson