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Originally Posted by Phoenix
to linkster...in war you should honour your enemies as well.
but lets not forget they were the enemy.
if the battlefront hit your hometown, youd probably be volunteering down at the weapons depot to help them make better and stronger gas.
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Uhmmmm - you might wanna do a little reading in the history books - England at the end of WW1 decided they wanted the oil in Iraq - so they took Iraq as a war spoils(all of the "allies" used to do that kinda stuff) - and took possession by bombing the heck out of all of the towns and cities - the people of Iraq didnt really like the fact that they had just been occupied by England and decided to revolt against the British. England responded by torturing, bombing, poisoning and gassing hundreds of thousands of Iraq civilians for the first 10 years after WW1 - then when they had made their point, occupied and controlled the oil in Iraq into the 1950s.
And in answer to your point about the gas - I believe it was made illegal to use the stuff in the US some time back - although Im sure the stockpiles are still available in Maryland
We did happen to export some to a friend of ours named Saddam back some 20 or 30 years ago to help out with his battle against the Iranians (who were backed by Russians) which is where all of this nonsense about him poisoning his own people came from - it wasnt his own people - it was the Kurds who were fighting with the Iranian side - they just happened to live and fight in Iraq. But yeah I know we do have some pretty strong stuff and when we gave it Saddam he made good use of it
Same as the chemical weapons we gave him