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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (7385)	4/4/2003 12:41:11 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 21614

Yes, the US developed chem warfare during the cold war arms race. so glad we pulled up out of that nose-dive into horror , but it has been the temptations of would be tyrants and agressors like the Saddam for their cheapness to make . He is being reformed now, on that subject as we speak. ;-) I realize the good the US has done in the world, and realize what would happen if the Stalins, Hitlers, or Saddams had any technological edge in warfare. a beautiful wise thought ...

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (7385)	4/4/2003 9:50:07 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 21614

This is why Iraqis keep gas masks around. thestar.com The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the use of riot control agents as a method of warfare. This battlefield use would contravene the Chemical Weapons Convention, but is explicitly permitted by an Executive Order of 1975. In four major uses of chemical weapons in the past — by combatants in World War I; by the Italians in Ethiopia; by the Egyptians in Yemen; and in the Iran-Iraq war — deployment was preceded by use of non-lethal agents.