Phosgene isn't a nerve gas. It works by combining with water in your lungs and forming hydrochloric acid which damages lung tissue. It does not work on neurotransmitter chemicals.
Bingo. When I worked in swimming pool supplies, we were warned never to mix pool chlorine with pool acid because it would create mustard gas. Phosgene has a similar composition. Both mustard gas and phosgene were used in WWI.
“It works by combining with water in your lungs and forming hydrochloric acid which damages lung tissue.”
Kind of like the gas chamber?
“Phosgene isn’t a nerve gas. It works by combining with water in your lungs and forming hydrochloric acid which damages lung tissue. It does not work on neurotransmitter chemicals.”
Doesn’t really matter. The UN lost their nerve years ago.
Aww... Let the poor journalist have his fun. "Nerve Gas" just has a nice ring to it, don't you think? Journalism is all about entertainment and shock value, after all. Never let it be said that accuracy stood in the way of a good journalistic fiction!
Thank you. I thought that this was a BS claim - phosgene was a weapon in WW1, and it took the Germans until WW2 to invent (and use, on Jews and others) nerve gasses like Sarin.
I looked this up on Wikipedia in about 5 seconds - but I guess that my expectations are a bit too high that ABC or any other media outlet would actually get their facts right.
Yes and it was planted by Sec Powell at the request of GWB
Yeah that's what I thought. It was a common WWI Choking Agent IIRC from my NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical Warfare) School notes. Along with the old Mustard Gas which was a BLISTER agent inhalation of either was supposed to have induced the condition of dry land drowning. Where basically your lung tissue emulsifies and you drown from that. Rare to actually happen however. Very inefficient killer as chemicals go. Now a nice liberal dose of VX or GD SOMAN....that's the ticket!
It also denatures the proteins in affected areas. It essentially cooks you. That's why the worst symptoms often don't occur until 24-48 hours after exposure.
My great uncle once showed me scars on his lower neck/chest from some gas attack think it was phosgene? he must have had a mask on his face but the skin still burned.
Well “nerve gas” is easily digested by the dumber than stumps that listen and buy into the media explanation...
If they said “Blistering agent” they would have interpreted that to mean how much SPF 30 to put on when they are outside...
This is another example of why we need to divorse ourselves from the U.N. and send them packing to their alternate site in Geneva...
I think the goons would be much happier over there anyway...
I wanna know how they got that into the country, without anyone keeping tabs on it...It was probably sitting in someones desk drawer...