Yes, and, depending on the strength and side the wind is blowing, it could
blow back in the sender's way. Duh, wrong target, I sprayed my own troops
!!! So what ? "Ooops, sorry, I did not mean it" ? These weapons are not WMDs
per se, I'd rather call them "WMTs", if you like, as in Weapons of Mass
Terror.

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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
> part de Paveza, Gary
> Envoyé : mercredi 26 février 2003 13:29
> À : [log in to unmask]
> Objet : Re: [HP3000-L] OT: A powerful argument for war with Iraq
>
>
> Biological weapons and chemical weapons are ineffective and
> that's why the
> US doesn't employ them?  I'd have to disagree.  I'm sure that
> they can be
> very effectively used.  Imagine a crop duster spreading the plaque or
> anthrax or sarin gas.  You don't think a lot of people would
> be impacted?  I
> suspect that a better reason that the US doesn't employ them
> is that you
> cannot control who is targeted by them.  Massive civilian deaths would
> result.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> Gary Paveza, Jr.
> Senior Systems Administrator
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>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Wirt Atmar [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>         Sent:   Tuesday, February 25, 2003 4:56 PM
>         To:     [log in to unmask]
>         Subject:        Re: [HP3000-L] OT: A powerful
> argument for war with
> Iraq
>
>         John writes:
>
>         >  Wirt wrote:
>         >  >he has no active WMD programs
>         >
>         >  Please, Wirt, hurry to the UN and share with them your
> intelligence
>         reports!
>         >  Clearly the intelligence services of the western
> countries have
> been lying
>         >  to their employers!  It's up to you and your personal
> intelligence agency
>         to
>         >  set them straight!
>
>         Essentially the only weapon of mass destruction is a
> nuclear weapon.
> The
>         threat from chemical and biological weapons are being greatly
> exaggerated in
>         the news media -- and that alone is the fundamental
> reason that the
> United
>         States doesn't employ them. They're ineffective as battlefield
> weapons and
>         are generally more dangerous to the using
> organization than they are
> to the
>         intended target.
>
>         The total accumulated world-wide deaths from the use
> of biological
> weapons
>         doesn't rise to the number of dead the US suffers in
> one day from
> automobilie
>         accidents, and the total chemical weapons world-wide
> death count
> from 1911 to
>         2003 only equals a few years worth of US auto accidents.
>
>         But in stark contrast, there were dozens of days
> during World War II
> when the
>         death toll from conventional incendiary devices
> exceeded the current
> US
>         yearly automotive death toll, 30,000 or more burned
> to death in a
> single
>         night, with the Dresden and Toyko firebombings death counts
> exceeding even
>         the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear weapon tolls.
>
>         WMD's aren't what you think they are if you listen to the news
> nowadays.
>
>         Wirt Atmar
>
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