Right Side Up, nuclear, biological and chemical weapons all fall under the term WMDs.
Granted, since the quest for these elusive WMDs began, bio, chem, and nuc have fallen under the umbrella.
Perhaps this is a mistake, however. We indeed suffered a chemical attack shortly after 9/11 with the anthrax attacks, but that was hardly “mass destruction.”
“Chemical weapons, although they can be very deadly in a subway station…are not really strategic weapons. They are weapons that can kill 50, 100, 200 people, but in fact they won’t devestate you the way a nuclear bomb in NYC or Chicago…would be a deadly blow.”
–Patrick Lang, former chief of mid east intelligence at the DIA
I tend to think of nukes as more appropriate synonyms for WMDs, although with the right nut case mind, chems and bios can be equally devestating.
Wasn’t it chem weapons suspicions that drove us into Iraq? Not nukes, right?
-When you breath in VX gas, it blocks an enzyme in your brain that allows your muscles to relax.
So pretty soon; you’re heart rate is through the roof, you can’t relax your muscles, “Here comes muscle spasms!”
-so intense that your back snaps, your neck is broken and you’re pretty fuckin miserable.
-So there you are, lying on the ground, with your body twisted like a futhamuckin pretzel. Staring at your buddy, whose head is residing nicely next to his feet, cause he’s folded in half like a damn suitcase.
-Not only that, VX is a persistant agent, it takes 2-3 days for the area to clear from the gas.
Not a WMD huh? Yeah right.
Hitler himself, who fought in WWI, used mustard gas. When it blew back on him, he swore to never use it again because it was, “inhumane.”
That was many years ago, technology has far advanced over the years. The shat out there now is some pretty brutal stuff.
I would much rather be hit by a nuke than gassed with VX.
Semper Fi
"Actually, Saddam Hussein used his weapons of mass destruction against both Iran and his own people.
Your opinions would be taken seriously if they were based on facts."–Moisture
True, Moisture, consider this:
“He did use weapons back in the 1980’s, when the US administration - the Reagan administration - was actually supporting him, and allowing him to import the chemical precursors for that. Donald Rumsfeld…helped open the door for better relations between Washington and Bahgdad.”
–David Corn, Nation Mag.
There was no “stepping in” back then, huh?