[Señor Zorro]

Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne.

You have got to be kidding. I'm not saying that they shouldn't be tested here first (they should; a battlefield is a terrible place to test anything), but the "international community"'s "safety concerns" should have nothing to do with it. How does someone spouting this kind of junk get to be an Air Force Secretary? He sounds like a perennial wimp.

[Tannerone]

How about starting with the US congress? Cannot we please ship all these congress people to North Korea and hope that little twit over there is stupid enough to keep them!

[rock_lobsta]

There's always the 9/11 blackshirt crowd. They could have had a big test session on Monday.

I would have been glad to squeeze off a few 'non-lethal' rounds...

[Main Street]

This seems to be nothing new.

Didn't our government do this already? I remember back in the early 70's the papers announcing that our military leaders admitted to flying over some American cities and dumping small diluted amounts of biological or chemical weapons to observe if there would be any reaction.

Also didn't our government once detonate a nuclear devise up wind of a small town out west, to see what the effects of fallout would be on a population?? I remember 60 Minutes doing a story on it. The fallout looked like snow falling in the summer. The people of the town suffered many deformities and cancers.

I also remember something about them having a group of our soldiers in trenches close to a nuclear detonation, and then having them leave the trenches and march through ground zero soon after?.

[b4its2late]

Test them on ACLU and CAIR offices. It'd be a good place to start.

[Teacher317]

Shows you exactly where we rank in their minds... foreign opinion first, American lives second.

[Mad Dash]

I think that I would be vilified in the world press."

That's gonna happen anyway, you pansy.

If we are at war..on the battlefield, then a concern that the enemy might be hurt in an unintended manner, or fear the "media" won't like it, is just plain wrong headed.

[Killborn]

The first subject of LTL weapons are always the ones who will be using it. Before a single taser/pepperball is fired, cops and soldiers test them out first on each other.

[TXnMA]

That idiotic wuss is high in our military's chain of command? Dump him and replace him with a warrior!!!

[khnyny]

This guy is an idiot. The internationals might not like us? What a PC, illogical, head up his arse military person. Oh, but it's ok to "experiment" on Americans?

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

and will he be first in line for testing? yeah right

[TexasRepublic]

Unfreaking real. I suspose lethal weapons should be tested on American citizens also? Then I suggest that idiot for starters.

[Killborn]

Many here don't understand the purpose of LTL weapons. They are not to be used on Taliban columns or in Fallujah. They are for pacifying a restless/agitated population without the use of force. PErfect for the looters in Baghdad or to quell a riot because the people are jobless and have no power.

I'm glad we have an alternative to shooting at anyone who looks at us cross-eyed becuase he's having a bad day.

The General doesn't seem to know that we already test it on US citizens (servicemen to be exact) but then again, LTL isn't exactly the domain of the USAF.

[LibWhacker]

Test 'em on Wynne.

[freepatriot32]

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[toddlintown]

You first.