[maggief]

NYT FLASHBACK:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/07/world/middleeast/a-weapon-seen-as-too-horrible-even-in-war.html

A Weapon Seen as Too Horrible, Even in War

By STEVEN ERLANGERSEPT. 6, 2013

EXCERPT

No Western army used gas on the battlefield during the global slaughter of World War II. Hitler, himself gassed during World War I, refused to order its use against combatants, however willing he and the Nazis were to gas noncombatant Jews, Gypsies and others.

[ladyjane]

...willing he and the Nazis were to gas noncombatant Jews, Gypsies and others.

By others you mean Christians, priests, nuns, disabled. Millions of them.

[Chad N. Freud]

Great find.

The NYT here both parallels and echoes Spicer’s context, in his use of the term “chemical weapons” -— as opposed to, for example, “chemical execution,” which the U.S. itself has employed.

Excellent find.