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Posted on 08/31/2013 12:22:14 PM PDT by Trueblackman
If launched from aircraft, the kinetic energy would be relatively mild (compared to, e.g., HE) and expended in the air before reaching the target.
When we find out everything about Benghazi, we’ll find out who was behind the chemical munition attack.
IMHO, Obama is the number one culprit.
"They didn’t tell us what these arms were or how to use them,” complained a female fighter named ‘K.’ “We didn’t know they were chemical weapons. We never imagined they were chemical weapons.”
The truth has a certain ring to it.
This story doesn't have that ring.
Another note. Nerve agents aren’t very hazardous for long (after the mist falls or blows away). There’s no indication from news or likelihood, given information published, that mustard or Sarin were used.
Why not?
WWI was started buy a nut case coming out of a deli armed with a small caliber pistol. It’s not so much the event but the press you can get out of it.
All wars have reasons that are kept super secret and excuses that are created with the willing help of the press and refined to the greatest lie imaginable.
The retards in office want a war. They are looking for an excuse.They will find one or make one. We are in big do do.
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Syria is run by and for the Alawis, a minority religious sect. It's not entirely accurate to call them Shiites, as many Sunni and Shia Muslims don't really consider them Muslims at all, though in the last 50 years or so they have probably moved in the direction of more orthodox Muslim beliefs.
The Sunni/Shia split can be compared to Catholic/Protestant. While Catholicism has a good bit of diversity, it also has a great deal of consistency around the world. Meanwhile, the "everything else" nature of Protestantism means it is wildly diverse, with some groups that most Protestants and Catholics would not even classify as Christian.
10-4 Chode. Returned mail. Still seeking the elusive acorn.
Another former NBC type here.
Most chemical bombs or mortars have only a small “bursting charge” and not a full load of high explosive. A chemical round does little damage to buildings or anything else around it, since it goes off with a pop and not a boom.
Once released, chemical agents are affected by atmospheric conditions, i.e. a strong breeze can disperse the agents more quickly than a mild breeze, and there is no telling where the wind currents will create denser concentrations.
By the way, if the nerve agent Sarin was used — a big “if” — then skin contact is just as deadly, though slower, than inhalation. A little drop’ll do ya.
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10-4 ... another out gone.
ball to you Chode.
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out is gone.
A possibility I have considered as well.
What evidence do we have that the rebels used a chemical weapon as a sort of operation northwoods method to pull us into a war?
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