On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:04:03 -0800 (PST) Chris Doss
<lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> writes:
>
> Note the relevant bit: "It is not necessary to use only the most
> deadly gasses:
> gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would
> spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent
> effects on most of those affected."
>
> In other words, he is advocating use of tear gas, or something
> corresponding to it, not dropping mustard gas on and massacring
> them.
I think the idea was to start with teargases then if that didn't work, they would move on to more toxic agents.
Jim F.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com>
> We shouldn't forget Churchill's advocacy of the use
> of poison gas against the Kurds in Iraq in 1919.
> As he put it:
>
> "I do not understand this squeamishness about the use
> of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the
> Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention
> of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer
> affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment
> of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water
> by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of
> using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. The moral effect
> should be so good that the loss of life should be reduced to a
> minimum. It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gasses:
> gasses can be used which cause great inconvenience and would
> spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent
> effects on most of those affected."
>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_British_use_of_gas_in_Mesopotamia_i
> n_1920>
>
> Ultimately, it was decided not to use gas on the
> Kurds but apparently this decision was taken
> on the basis of practical technical considerations
> rather than moral ones.
>
> In the General Strike of 1926, Churchill called
> for the use of machine guns against the striking
> coal miners.
>
> >
> >
> > Shane Mage
> >
> > > This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> > > always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> > > kindling in measures and going out in measures."
> > >
> > > Herakleitos of Ephesos
> >
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