, please remember that
> there have only been two nations since ww1 that have deployed nerve gases in
> > war, Iraq and the USA (vietnam) so the whole thing strikes me as being
> > hypocritical in the extreme. When I was working as a psychiatric nurse in
> > the sixties I saw an old man die of injuries that he received during ww1 ,
> > his lungs were badly damaged by mustard gas it wasnt pretty and he'd
> > suffered horribly for all 40 years since the end of the war , so I dont have
> > any positive feelings for any military that retains such accursed weapons.
> > Beowulf
> >
> >
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> The US never deployed nerve agents in Viet Nam; that lie has been debunked!
> A simple Google search found these links. The last two links concern the
> Communist News Networks retraction of the bogus story. "Peter
> Arnett"...where, oh where have I heard that name before?
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> Brian Ehni
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Regardless of what "debunking" you may have seen, I had in my grubby hands, clearly marked, nerve gas rounds for my M-79 during my time in vietnam. They were no harder to get than WP rounds, although I don't know of anyone who actually had the balls to fire one off. Additionally, everyone in my detachment was required to carry atropine syrettes. Charlie had no nerve gas so why did we carry those? I was at Phu Cat airbase as part of a signal corp unit, running over the horizon troposcatter microwave comm lines.
John H.