Re: Ding Dong The Witch is Dead: Part 1 of a long upcoming series


Jasper Janssen wrote:
> ABC, as it used to be known, Atomic, Biological, Chemical, were the
> trifecta that were all considered to be too dangerous to actually use,
> ever. Since 1945, when the US *had* atomics and the rest of the world
> didn't, US policy has been based on the fact that any bio or chemical
> attack would be retaliated against with nukes, which allowed them to not
> spend any money on Bio and Chem development *coughcough*, which they could
> even present as a major blow for peace. You agree or disagree with the
> equation, but it's been that way for 60 freaking years. ABC, then NBC, and
> now WMD. TLAs rule!

It has been that way for whom?

A little perspective...

Compare the fire bombing of Tokyo by the US in 1945:

"Stacked up corpses were being hauled away on lorries. Everywhere
there was the stench of the dead and of smoke. I saw the places on the
pavement where people had been roasted to death. At last I comprehended
first-hand what an air-raid meant. I turned back, sick and scared.
Later I learned that 40% of Tokyo was burned that night, that there had
been 100,000 casualties and 375,000 left homeless."
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/fire_raids_on_japan.htm

....with the use of chemical weapons by Saddam in 1988, using nerve
agents and helicopters obtained from the US:

"The Halabja poison gas attack was an incident on 15 March-19 March
1988 during a major battle in the Iran-Iraq war when chemical weapons
were used, allegedly by Iraqi government forces, to kill a number of
people in the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja (population 80,000).
Estimates of casualties range from several hundred to 5,000 people."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack

Which do you think was the most horrible... and best fit with the term
"mass destruction"?

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