Posted on 10/11/2004 4:18:07 AM PDT by Zon
Germany and Adolph Hitler didn't have WMDs
Saddam Hussein had weapons more lethal and destructive than anything Hitler had.
So do the industrialized countries.
The difference being that some leaders are evil and/or insane.
Thus, they can't be trusted no matter what weapons they own.
Evil leaders are weapons of mass destruction.
Ever since terrorists flew jet planes into the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon terrorists have been recognized as WMDs.
It's only fitting that evil leaders be labeled as weapons of mass destruction.
To the main stream media: spin your wheels proclaiming that Hussein isn't evil.
I think the Nazi-Japan scenerio was likely to happen again, as Saddam would have willingly given WMD's to terrorists (if he hadn't already done so). Saddam had the WMD's...period! It really amazes me that so many on the left (and some "independents") think that there were no WMD's to begin with, eventhough there was clear evidence that Saddam used them against the Kurds and Iran in the late 1980s. Many of these same critics also have forgotten that Saddam kicked out the UN inspectors in 1998, as he had "something" to hide. Finally, I have to laugh when many of these Bush-bashers feel that Saddam suddenly had an "awakening" and chose to destroy the WMD's. Yeah, and Hitler was a finalist for the Noble Peace Prize in the 1930s.
Funny, but it seems that Slobadon Milosevic did not have WMD's either. But we didn't hear a peep from the anti-war crowd in the late 1990s. Like they say at Protest Warrior..."war is not the answer, unless a democrat is President".
There is not connection between between evil with iron crosses and evil with rags on their heads. /sarcasm
Ask 14 million Jews, Slavic Christians, Gypsies, Homosexuals, and other unwanted humanity and their families whether he had Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Actually, the machine gun was one of the original WMD, along with the poison gas of WWI, but the machine gun, with its ability to chew up huge numbers of enemy in a massed charge certainly qualifies.
There was this little cannon I saw on Wild West Tech that they used on the indians in the 1880s. It had a cute little shell and you could load and fire about 15 rounds per minute. They demo'd it. A bad arsed little WMD.
I don't know about Germany, but for Japan it was certainly a war for oil.
Exactly.
I've read of a biological capability. (Also, Japan was doing the same.) I think it was mostly anthrax...do you have any data on that?
As seen here:
According to http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/germany/bw.htm:
Japan did quite a bit of research into biological weapons. Namely with Unit 731. A good summary can be found at:
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