[weegee]

I saw this article in today's Houston Chronicle but did not get online soon enough to be able to grab the article from their site.

As I searched the web for this article, I saw that different editors had omitted quite a few details. This version from military.com is the longest I've found.

When I first read it in the Chronicle (and I saw the SF byline) I couldn't help but think that this was cribbed off of some antiwar talking points.

Our federal law enforcement used tear gas domestically on small children at Waco and the left had no qualms about that.

The author here keeps trying to make the leap from non-lethal weapons to the WMD that Saddam has.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The U.S. military has explored mind-altering drugs such as opiates, along with genetically engineered microorganisms that can destroy objects like runways, vehicles and buildings.

The fungus among us

[Redcloak]

They should stick to 00; much less legal trouble.

[piasa]

It's the old moral equivalency thing... in liberalworld, American presidents who commit the horrible crime of calling a journalist a "major league arseholes" can be equated to an Iraqi dictator, who orders the tongues of aspiring journalists to be cut out. In liberalworld, pepper spray is exactly the same as VX and aflatoxin.
And in liberalworld, they can make these asinine comparisons with a straight face.

[hellinahandcart]

The agents can actually kill, they argue, when used in war environments. They could also put militaries on a slippery slope to using nastier, deadlier chemicals.

(sigh)

Okey doke, we'll just use bullets then.

[Enemy Of The State]

ah screw it! Im tired of being the only damn country that abides by the treaties we sign. The only reason these other countries want to sign treaties left and right with us because they know we are the only ones who will abide by them. Every treaty is nothing more than a giveaway of our sovereignty.

[weegee]

BTTT

[GraniteStateConservative]

So we use it and then dare them to drag us in front of the World Court or sanction us from the U.N.

[supercat]

Let's just find some cooperative Iraqi citizens to use it for us.