Posted on 09/01/2013 7:29:54 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
FURIOUS politicians have demanded Prime Minister David Cameron explain why chemical export licences were granted to firms last January – 10 months after the Syrian uprising began.
BRITAIN allowed firms to sell chemicals to Syria capable of being used to make nerve gas, the Sunday Mail can reveal today.
Export licences for potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride were granted months after the bloody civil war in the Middle East began.
The chemical is capable of being used to make weapons such as sarin, thought to be the nerve gas used in the attack on a rebel-held Damascus suburb which killed nearly 1500 people, including 426 children, 10 days ago.
President Bashar Assad’s forces have been blamed for the attack, leading to calls for an armed response from the West.
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But I think sometimes we have it all wrong. We keep trying to save rabid Neanderthals from themselves, and we always end up being the 'bad' guys.
Maybe we should give EVERYONE a few canisters of vx nerve gas, and let cultures sort themselves out?
If you live in a culture which reveres brotherly love and forgiveness, the weapons aren't that big of a deal, 'cause no one wants to hurt their brother.
But if you live in the land of murderous hatred and resentment, in the Islamic world for example, where people walk around with a chip on their shoulder looking for an excuse to kill innocents, then they will kill each other off in a matter of months?
The best thing that could happen might just be to equip them to do the murder they desire, and after they destroy themselves, the rest of us could lead peaceful and quiet lives (and work jobs).
Just sayin'.
Seems pretty silly to me.
Sodium fluoride is a common ingredient in toothpaste. And I just did a search for potassium fluoride, and it seems to be available with no warnings about having to have special permission to buy it:
http://www.americanelements.com/kf.html
I’d like to hear more about this. Hope all the truth comes out!
“Nerve gas chemicals” are used in any number of insecticides.
Must be something to it ?
Here are some more articles:
Here’s the denial:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-23924259
they’re also used any number of nerve gasses.
Well, frankly, I don’t see how they can possibly keep a chemical as common as sodium fluoride out of the hands of Syrians. Apparently they used to buy it from the UK to make toothpaste, according to the article. Are they going to forbid Syrians from using cavity-preventing toothpaste? Do they think they can stop someone else buying and selling these common chemicals.
It strikes me as more of a politically correct gesture than a practical measure.
Pretty weird to me, too.
But I’m no chemist.
Don’t people poison others with castor beans and anti-freeze also?
How long can nerve gas be stored? Does it have an expiration date?
I bet someone sold them pressure cookers as well.
Not sure.
Sarin was invented by the Germans, around WWII.
VX started as pesticide in the early 1950’s.
Theoretically we don’t have this stuff any more, right?
Lol. Common kitchen “chemicals” can be used to make “nerve gas.”
That’s pretty sick.
/johnny
It’s not optimal for dental care in Syria, actually. Evidently it somehow interferes with the camels’ reproductive cycles.
Well, to tell the truth, I’m hesitant to search the internet for how to make Sarin. It’s something I’d rather not know.
Back when I was a boy, I used to play with various chemicals to make explosives—black powder, potassium iodide, and the like, but things have changed since then. I used to own a BB gun and a collection of throwing knives, too. In those days, it was all just good fun. Not to mention shooting tin cans all over the place with a .22 rifle.
There was a Tom Clancy ripoff book I once read where the Russians gave the Arabs all kinds of WMD and the USA gave Israel all kinds of WMD...then someone intentionally goaded the situation into war...and by the time it was over the Middle East wouldn’t be newsworthy for 1000 years. Because it was unlivable for any lifeform higher than a cockroach, and I don’t mean the ones who voted for Obama.
Not mentioned was the worldwide chaos as the biggest oil supply went offline, though, among other glaring plotholes.
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