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To: The Toll

If there is no moral qualms about chemical weapons, why did even Hitler shun their use in WWII?


50 posted on 04/07/2017 5:56:35 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Because they are bad and nasty. So?

Bad and nasty things happen every single day all over the globe. Is there any of them that you don’t want to stick your nose into?


53 posted on 04/07/2017 5:59:15 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: elhombrelibre
If there is no moral qualms about chemical weapons, why did even Hitler shun their use in WWII?

Because Hitler suffered injuries (temporary blindness) from a gas attack in WWI. Note that he had no compunctions about using them on Jews, and others he considered undesirables, in the death camps. He simply didn't want the fighting forces of his superior race (said with dripping sarcasm) being attacked with them.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-wounded-in-british-gas-attack

68 posted on 04/07/2017 6:23:52 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: elhombrelibre
If there is no moral qualms about chemical weapons, why did even Hitler shun their use in WWII?

Because there was a credible countering force of chemical weapons in the hands of the enemy.

92 posted on 04/07/2017 6:52:24 AM PDT by ecomcon
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I'm convinced that Syria did not attack with chemical weapons, so why did US do this? Who wanted a pretext for the attack and the apparent goal to remove another sovereign leader from power?

Sarin gas: just a tiny drop kills an adult. How did anyone treating the _victims_ survive w/o any protective gear?

93 posted on 04/07/2017 6:53:29 AM PDT by veracious (UN = OIC = Islam ; Democrats may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: elhombrelibre

Yikes! Hitler was offered nukes by Nobel Prize physicist Bohr, in 1940, and refused to pursue the project. Hitler said, “The war will be over by 1942 and it will not be necessary.”


96 posted on 04/07/2017 7:04:13 AM PDT by Bogie
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To: elhombrelibre

There were moral and, more importantly, practical reservations about using chemical weapons during the Great War. As a veteran of that war, Hitler was well aware of the practical issues, even if he had no moral compunction about them.

http://chemicalweapons.cenmag.org/when-chemicals-became-weapons-of-war/


106 posted on 04/07/2017 7:21:45 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: elhombrelibre

I think he was warned to not do it by Roosevelt, Truman,
Churchill if he didn’t want Hell to descend on his head
(which it finally did anyway).

Truman had personally experienced being attacked with
chemical weapons in combat during WWI - also Churchill I
think. (Germany had used them in WWI.)


114 posted on 04/07/2017 7:55:35 AM PDT by Twinkie ( MSM and DEMOCRAT PARTY are DEAD)
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To: elhombrelibre

Well technically he did gas the jews...


120 posted on 04/07/2017 8:25:28 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: elhombrelibre

Because he feared retaliation. Hitler was also a gas casualty in WWI so maybe that influenced him. I don’t think it was because Hitler was less Eeeeevil than Assad. What a ridiculous introduction of Hitler into a debate. Truly a classic.

We have a new neocon meme: Assad worse than Hitler.


149 posted on 04/07/2017 4:24:52 PM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: elhombrelibre

“If there is no moral qualms about chemical weapons, why did even Hitler shun their use in WWII?”

Zyklon B, sport.


152 posted on 04/07/2017 9:18:17 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: elhombrelibre

The Germans didn’t use chemical weapons because they didn’t want chemical weapons used against them. The Wehrmacht was still using horses for transport and chemical weapons would have disrupted their logistics.


157 posted on 04/08/2017 5:37:33 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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