Ted Rall for September 05, 2013
September 04, 2013
September 06, 2013
Transcript:
U.S. to attack U.S. over chem weapons. The president has asked Congress to authorize an attack against the United States to punish it for it's repeated use of chemical weapons. (Barack Obama: Only 7 people have used Chemical Weapons since WW1: Hitler, Saddam, LBJ, Nixon, Bush 1, Bush 2, and some skinny black guy whose name I can't recall. The U.S. can't stand by as the U.S. behaves with impunity.) Target #1 for retaliatory strike: The Pentagon. (Barack Obama: This is where the Napalm and agent orange attacks against Vietnam originated. It's also the source of depleted Uranium attacks against Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as white phosphorus in Iraq.) Target #2: NYPD, LAPD, SFPD, and other big city Police Departments. (Barack Obama: These thugs repeatedly used chemical weapons, including tear gas, against their own people. Who uses pepper spray against peaceful protesters?!?) The president promises a limited strike with "no boots on the ground." (Police Officer: The contractors gave us some cool new chemical agents to try out.) (Barack Obama: Sounds good. Whatever it takes.)
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
“Willy Peter” IS a chemical agent, and truly terrible!
jazzmoose over 10 years ago
Good one, Ted.
Nebulous Premium Member over 10 years ago
If you’re going to call depleted uranium a chemical weapon then you’re also going to have to call lead, as in bullets, a chemical weapon. Also gunpowder, and any other propellant or explosive.
Jason Allen over 10 years ago
It’s a chemical, and it was used as a weapon.
magicwalnut Premium Member over 10 years ago
So is hot coffee , flung in someone’s face….
woodwork over 10 years ago
tell those of us that have Agent Orange in our systems thatit isn’t a chemical weapon.
pdchapin over 10 years ago
Chemical weapons are defined by treaty. None of the weapons mentioned here fit the definition.
William Bednar Premium Member over 10 years ago
Looks like Ted has been secretly re-reading his “Boondocks” cartoons collection.
Dtroutma over 10 years ago
Gore bane: while defoliation was the intent, Orange, and dioxin is indeed very toxic to mammals as well. I was put on the “Orange Register” before everyone over there was subsequently put on, had to show what provinces I was in, what I did, and when. I now have several little “problems” as a result of that exposure.
Which a friend died a year ago, having come down with prostate cancer and leukemia, after exposure to herbicides in large quantities spraying sagebrush, then exposure at a uranium mine over seven years. The prostate was the dioxin, the leukemia, alpha radiation (CONSUMING the dust, and also breathing it into his lungs, not surface “safe” exposure).
Such is also a lesson on DU ammunition (it’s NOT alpha radiation, and “spent” means not fuel material, it does NOT mean no longer radioactive!), but the “industry” still tries to claim a non-existent “safety” with such weapons.