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

To: Edscharp who wrote (14519)	4/18/2003 10:33:43 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21614

<disavowed> funny word, I assume it does not include ratifying anything?? Not even dangling chads??

To: Edscharp who wrote (14519)	4/18/2003 11:27:01 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Fear of chemical attack by who? The US? Of course news1.beograd.com bayarea.com Problem is, soldiers who use so-called "nonlethal agents" in combat outside their own countries are violating the very chemical weapons treaties the United States accuses Saddam Hussein of flouting. "We are doing our best to live within the straitjacket that has been imposed on us on this subject," Rumsfeld said on Feb. 5. "We are trying to find ways that nonlethal agents could be used within the law." Legal issues notwithstanding, the Pentagon has also explored developing other, far more exotic and powerful chemical agents that could be used in conflicts. sunshine-project.org In law, weapons that incapacitate personnel are not riot control agents. Under the CWC, RCAs are defined as being agents that cause temporary sensory effects that quickly disappear (e.g. tear gas). Chemical weapons that incapacitate - even temporarily - are completely prohibited. US officials, however, continue to conflate the terms, discussing incapacitants under the rubric of "RCAs". Because the US agents are "explicitly designed and primarily employed so as to incapacitate", they are not riot control agents. Used in armed conflict, they are chemical weapons. zmag.org