[fsorbello]

This guy hates the idea and rails about the legal aspects of this. I kind of like the idea of using non-lethal weapons adn testing them in an already hostile environment.

[rhombus]

Primal scream machine.

[Monty22]

This guy's right, they should use the traditional methods like M16's.

[MrB]

The guy opposes it because, like all Democrat voting leftists, he despises anything that enhances American military might, power, and influence.

[kjam22]

I think I'd rather they just shot all the trouble makers over there. Do we have that many bullets?

[katana]

If the writer is concerned about the "legal aspects" of deploying a non-lethal crowd control device then what his opinion is of Daisy Cutters and Cluster Bombs? Don't answer that, I think I know.

[kt56]

"Is actual combat in a foreign country the appropriate place to test a new weapon?"

Absolutely not, we should be testing it in San Francisco on the gays lining up for marriage licenses...if this works on them it will work on anybody..

[metesky]

Is actual combat in a foreign country the appropriate place to test a new weapon?

No! It should be tested at the L.A. Times building.

Admin Moderator: This might need excerpting.

[Ancesthntr]

Proponents of nonlethal weapons argue that pain and hearing loss, if they were to occur, are certainly preferable to death, which is always possible when lethal force is applied.

Yeah, rumor has it that thermobaric bombs may be lethal.

But this argument ignores realities on the ground. Last week, as I watched televised images of angry Iraqis pelting U.S. soldiers with rocks when they arrived to assist those injured in suicide bombings at mosques, I couldn't help but wonder whether the presence of a sound weapon to disperse those crowds would just escalate hostilities.

Let's see, our guys are getting pelted with rocks (not little pebbles, mind you, but ROCKS - which can kill or seriously injure someone - while they were trying to help those wounded by a terrorist. How would we have been worse off by zapping them with 145 decibels and dispersing the crowd. What would they do, start throwing rocks? If they had guns (i.e. escalating the hostilities), it is obvious that they'd have already used them - how would escalation have been possible?

This guy is a complete moron, as evidenced by his inability to accurately report facts or logically reason through a problem. He needs to go to the hospital so that they can re-establish the connection between his 2 neurons.

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