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Justin Kelly — (archived)

Using Napalm which IS a WMD (chemical weapon)

Breaking this down NAPALM = CHEMICAL WEAPON = WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Raoul, I know you are not this stupid. Throw us a friggin bone here. Napalm, while it is true is made up of chemicals, it is not a "Chemical Weapon" in the NBC or WMD variety. Lets prove the silliness of this right here and now:

What you are saying is this: "Jet Feul" and "Polystyrene" are chemicals. And since these chemicals are used in a weapon it is thus a 1Chemical Weapon, and further more chemical weapons are 2Weapons of Mass Destruction

OOOKAAAYYY. . . .

#1 This is pretty funky logic, I mean in that case every explosive known to man with exception to nuclear weapons, is a chemical weapon. Therefor, KNO3 + S + C (in reality charcoal) a chemical reaction, used in an exposive weapon is a chemical weapon. Well in that case you are calling all firearms in the world chemical weapons

#2 Here is a link to something defining WMD in reference to chemical weapons, disputed definitions 1 and 2 apply to the crazyness you are saying and the absurd conclusion I arrive at using your very same same logic you applied in the very first line of your post, respectively -

From:http://www.fire.org.uk/BBC_News/News2003/February/bbc120203.htm

weapons of mass destruction • n 1. any weapon which could potentially inflict fatalities and physical damage on a massive scale. 2. polit. the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) arsenals of states identified as belonging to the axis of evil. also abbrv. as WMD.
CURRENT USAGE: "These [UN] reports do not contend that weapons of mass destruction remain in Iraq, but nor do they exclude that possibility." Dr Hans Blix's statement to the UN Security Council - 27/01/03.

ORIGIN: British newspapers called bomber aircraft "weapons of mass destruction" in 1937, when the Nazi Luftwaffe was flattening towns - such as Guernica - during the Spanish Civil War.

In the arms race of the Cold War, WMD was exclusively applied to thermo-nuclear bombs - since the opposing sides were ready with enough nukes to mutually assure the destruction of, well, everything.

BROADENED DEFINITION: UN Resolution 687 - which ended the Gulf War in 1991 - called on Iraq to relinquish its NBC ambitions and summed up the unpleasant trio as WMD.

In 1998, US law formalised WMD as devices able "to cause death or serious bodily injury to a significant number of people" using chemicals, a disease organism, radiation or radioactivity.

DISPUTED DEFINITION: the FBI says conventional explosives can also be WMD. "A weapon crosses the WMD threshold when the consequences of its release overwhelm local responders."

DISPUTED DEFINITION (TWO): Colombia's Vice President Gustavo Bell Lemus told the UN that small arms are also WMD, because bullet fatalities "dwarf that of all other weapons systems - and in most years greatly exceed the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki".

DISPUTED DEFINITION (THREE): some say that fewer - rather than more - weapons should be deemed capable of mass destruction.

"Only nuclear weapons are completely indiscriminate by their explosive power, heat radiation and radioactivity, and only they should therefore be called a weapon of mass destruction" says chemical weapons expert Gert G Harigel.

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