Torturing US soldiers

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At the chemical school, trainers try to give soldiers a taste of that fear
and confusion. Inside a semicircular building nestled in the woods, soldiers
wearing masks and full-body chemical suits are put into airtight chambers
tainted with enough poisonous nerve gas to kill scores of them. Before
entering, trainees have a tendency to strap their masks on so tightly that
their heads throb. Some break down in tears.

"They've seen pictures of what Saddam Hussein did to his own people with
chemical weapons," said Staff Sgt. Brad Koland, an instructor.

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(spin, spin, spin)
"We look, for example, today at terrorist states, and they are literally
putting their weapons of mass destruction capability right next to schools
and hospitals and mosques, purposely," Secretary of Defense Donald H.
Rumsfeld said in a Senate hearing this week.

http://nytimes.com/2002/05/19/international/middleeast/19CHEM.html