[driftdiver]

Thought they didnt have any WMD there.

[refermech]

Nasty way to go. Many times not immediate death. Lungs fill with fluid. Kind of like pneumonia.

[DaveA37]

Give them a few hours warning and then nuke the whole damn place.

[Resolute Conservative]

There are no WMD’s in Iraq or Syria. We have guarantees by all the dim party. On a side note, I have a piece of water front property in Arizona...

[Captain Rhino]

Not necessarily WMD.

Bottled chlorine gas is used in water purification. Just bring the cylinders to an upwind location and vent. There are pictures from WW1 showing this being done on the Western Front. However, unless the enemy is concentrated in a relatively small area (or a building, etc.), it is hard to achieve a “field” (or lethal) concentration this way. And if the wind shifts, the attacker becomes the attacked.

ISIS probably used up a lot of chlorine gas in making this attack and might have difficulty repeating it. Once might be enough if it sufficiently damages Iraqi Army morale.

The defense is gas masks with combat (vice training) filters. But chemical (gas) warfare has been outlawed, so who carries gas masks any more, right? I imagine the Iraqi Army is scrambling right now to issue/obtain gas masks.

Any doubt remaining as to what these ISIS bast*rds would immediately do if they got hold of real WMDs (chem/bio/nuclear)?

There is no gradualism or half measures with ISIS. How long will it be before the Western Powers realize that we don’t have the time needed to train up the Free Syrian Army/Peshmerga/etc. to do this work?

ISIS has to be attacked and wiped out to the last person, and now.

[Hootowl99]

Chlorine gas is poisonous but I don't put it in the category of a WMD. It is probably the most common industrial chemical there is. The primary uses are as a raw material in plastics manufacturing and in water sanitation. For Iraq and Syria, water sanitation is going the primary and likely only use for chlorine.

All public water systems of a significant size will have ton cylinders of gaseous chlorine for maintaining the quality of the public water system and disinfection of treated wastewater. Take away the chlorine and disease such as typhus and diphtheria will become established.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

No, that’s only if a Republican is President.

[Lil Flower]

Is this from the stash left over from Saddam, or the stash we were giving the Libyan’s in Benghazi?

[Sam Gamgee]

Which makes Geneva conventions look more than useless and stupid.