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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (65216)	6/19/2005 5:57:11 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Ray- Deliberate Japanese flooding in China resulted in a large number of deaths, I believe it exceeds Tokyo firebombing. Another area where Asia has surpassed the US.... German and Russian actions in WW II may not qualify as using a single weapon. I guess using airplanes adds an element of glamour, much like using horses in war used to do..... Chemical weapons turn out to be expensive and need confined space and times to work well. The Italians used chemical weaponds in Ethiopia then Abyssinia, with some effect. The recent Aum Shirinko efforts in the Tokyo subways (now there is a DENSE environment) really cast doubts on wide use of chemicals. Iraqi and Iranian experience may provide other examples. Biologicals are another matter. We know from nature's asaults on us - cholera, plague, influenza - that mass deaths can result. I think thay can easily be in the WMD category.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (65216)	6/20/2005 8:21:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<35,000 innocents died in the Dresden firebombing of February, 1945. > Innocents? I thought about 30% of the public voted Adolf into power, and maybe more were supporting Adolf at his zenith of apparent success. Anyway, even if they were all slaves, when it's all-out war, anything to debilitate the opposition is worth doing. I'd rather obliterate Hiroshima with a Sony Playstation remote-controlled bomb than go marching in with a rifle and be killed while trying to take over. Once the Japanese government saw what atomic bombs could do, and there was obviously more than one, and the circle was closing, they sensibly called it a day and surrendered. That was the end of the killing. If the USA had tried to invade, I think a lot of US soldiers would have been killed and they would have killed lots of civilians while trying to gain ascendancy. I suppose they could have just encircled Japan perpetually, but then who would have supplied my Toyota Camry and helped produce CDMA devices? Mqurice