Biggles Wrote:BTW,to stir up a hornets' nest: Do mustard gas (found a couple weeks ago) and Sarin (found in the last couple days) count as Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Now they say it may not be Sarin. Check out this link:
http://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=1...v=0oa8AfMQ
Poison gasses are most certainly WMD. Is there real debate about that?
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Poison gasses are most certainly WMD. Is there real debate about that?
No question in my mind. Also, crucifixes, Holy Water, and transubstantiated bread and wine would definitely qualify as weapons of mass destruction. See, Midnight Mass. :p
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Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Poison gasses are most certainly WMD. Is there real debate about that?I would say there is debate about it. You did ask the question, after all. It depends on how much of it they find. If they only find traces of it in a few shells, do you really consider that WMD? I think more info is required.
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jimbow8 Wrote:I would say there is debate about it. You did ask the question, after all. It depends on how much of it they find. If they only find traces of it in a few shells, do you really consider that WMD? I think more info is required.
I meant poison gasses as a =class= of weapon, Jimbow. Not particular to the Western Front 1917 nor Iraq 2004.
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Biggles Wrote:No question in my mind. Also, crucifixes, Holy Water, and transubstantiated bread and wine would definitely qualify as weapons of mass destruction. See, Midnight Mass. :p
Your drollery continues, Biggles. Good job!
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Poison gasses are most certainly WMD. Is there real debate about that?
As I see it, WMD™ is a newly invented term, and the definition has yet to be solidified. So far, it means anything the politicians want it to mean -- kinda like "Wet Lands."
Ken V.
Ken Valentine Wrote:As I see it, WMD™ is a newly invented term, and the definition has yet to be solidified. So far, it means anything the politicians want it to mean -- kinda like "Wet Lands."
Ken V.
I see your point, Ken, but still it seems a useful term--nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons...indiscriminant. (And yeah, I know area bombing is too. Maybe the difference is there's no real defense against so-called WMD.)
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:I see your point, Ken, but still it seems a useful term--nuclear weapons, chemical weapons, biological weapons...indiscriminant. (And yeah, I know area bombing is too. Maybe the difference is there's no real defense against so-called WMD.)
The way I read it, "Weapons of Mass Destruction," is something that other countries have. American politicians don't refer to this countries stocks of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological weapons as WMD's. Why is that?
Ken V.