How to get a "distasteful, but completely non-lethal blow"

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 12:45am

"THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal.

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says."

[feinstein9]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 1:05am

i'm afraid you can't quite be for shizzle...
are you?

:-O

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 1:12am

Pentagon reveals rejected chemical weapons
15 January 2005
From New Scientist Print Edition.

THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal.

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.

Other ideas included chemical weapons that attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats to troop positions, making them uninhabitable. Another was to develop a chemical that caused "severe and lasting halitosis", making it easy to identify guerrillas trying to blend in with civilians. There was also the idea of making troops' skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight.

The proposals, from the US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, date from 1994. The lab sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals". The plans have been posted online by the Sunshine Project, an organisation that exposes research into chemical and biological weapons.

Spokesman Edward Hammond says it was not known if the proposed $7.5 million, six-year research plan was ever pursued.

[feinstein9]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 1:17am

[feinstein has gone into shock and has been throwing quizzical looks of disbelief at the computer screen for the last ten minutes. she will manage a real reply when the nausea has subsided.]

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 1:18am

Your tax dollars hard at work in the land of the free, Darlin'.

[amasis]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 1:46am

Other ideas included chemical weapons that attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats to troop positions, making them uninhabitable. Another was to develop a chemical that caused "severe and lasting halitosis", making it easy to identify guerrillas trying to blend in with civilians.

You really got this from theonion.com didn't you? Didn't you?!? Please tell me you did.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 1:51am

Sorry . . .

http://www.newscientist.com/contents.ns?articleQuery.queryString=issue:2482

[karlean7]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 2:04am

I knew someone over here would be all over this article.

I can't stop laughing.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 7:39am

i point out yet again the year of the memo and the chief executive at that time and wonder why this is a surprise to any.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 7:49am

Damn it, if I'd only been able to get hold of a small vile I could've HAD Papa.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 7:55am

Papa, it says nothing about the president approving this. It says it was a proposal from a laboratory.
If the things the Pentagon or information-gathering departments are doing today can be attributed to themselves and not our current president today (WMDs, anyone? No? None?), then certainly a PROPOSAL didn't have to come from Clinton's mouth.
Besides, you know what he was busy doing in 1994.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 7:59am

bway, please, you've been around the boards long enough to know that anything that happens on a president's watch can be attributed to him, i'm only using the same logic by which everything that's happened on gw's watch is his fault. memos be damned!

and sommsy, like the song says, you dropped a bomb on me!

Updated On: 1/14/05 at 07:59 AM

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 8:02am

Papa, I'm glad to hear you admitting that Bush can be put to blame for all the missteps committed during his watch. They've been so good at tossing the blame to anyone but him that the rest of the country surely believes it.
Besides, you missed my attempt at a (VERY) subtle joke about the type of non-lethal blows Clinton was interested in.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/14/05 at 8:10am

no, i merely allowed to passs what i felt was an unecessary and completely innappropriate dig at a former world leader whose reputation doesn't need any more blows. for shame, bwaysinger. now, can you please try to suck it up and face head on the fact that bubba bears responsibility for the sex bomb (which is a horrible and blatantly inaccurate way to describe ms. lewinsky).