Rogue State, William Blum: Chapters 14 & 15; Chemical Weapons

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Chapter 14 - United States Use of Biological and Chemical Weapons at Home (http://books.google.com/books?id=oBM8UiDYz1MC&pg=PA136#v=onepage&q&f=false)


Chapter 15 - United States Use of Biological and Chemical Weapons Abroad (http://books.google.com/books?id=oBM8UiDYz1MC&pg=PA147#v=onepage&q&f=false)



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[kcchiefs6465]

I summed those two chapters up in the other thread about a minute ago.

Must spread some rep around.

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I summed those two chapters up in the other thread about a minute ago.

Must spread some rep around.


Did you cover the 70,000 gallons of Napalm daily over Korea in 1952?

[kcchiefs6465]

Did you cover the 70,000 gallons of Napalm daily over Korea in 1952?
I did.

I pretty much summarized the entirety of the two chapters. Added in a few that were left out of the book and some other details.

With all this talk of Sarin and precedents can't be allowed to be set, I figured people should know we poisoned Laotians in 1970.

Going to read "Killing Hope" next. It goes into a lot more detail on the various interventions and war crimes.

[kcchiefs6465]

From the other thread:


Plan Colombia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Colombia#Fumigation_strategy_and_criticisms) (Spraying glyphosate to defoiliate Colombia and kill coca plants. Poisoned the locals)

Halabja (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja) (Iraq use of chemical and biological weapons against the Kurds. The weapons were supplied to Saddam Hussein from the US in a deal helped secured by Donald Rumsfield)

Operation Tailwind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Tailwind) (the use of Sarin against Laotians)

Not to mention use in the Bahamas, (Joint US-Canada-Britain operation testing chemical and biological) Cuba, (an agricultural scientist paid to infect turkeys hopefully with the result of the Newcastle disease. Some 8,000 turkeys died. Weather modification programs- planes flying into the clouds and spraying chemicals. The poisoning of sugar bags.... and many more) Canada, (Testing effects of zinc cadmium sulfide in Winnipeg) China, (dropped feathers, fish heads, infected insects and other weird shit in the early '50s) Korea, (Agent Orange in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea as well as some 70,000 gallons of napalm during the Korean War) and Panama (testing for VX, Sarin, Agent Orange, and a host of other wicked shit. (chemical mines, rockets, and bombs) Early tests used unwitting military men as guinea pigs. Some of the ordinances were found undetonated.)

That's all shocking but somewhat expected. So the US poisoned people from around the world for the better part of the 20th Century, so what?

Well, it should probably be noted that they've been poisoning American citizens as well. And I'm not simply referring to the military soldiers used as guinea pigs in Project DORK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Quinuclidinyl_benzilate#Military_use)and Operation Whitecoat. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Whitecoat)

In 1950 the Army dropped contaminated turkey feathers in the Watertown, N.Y. area. The reason? To see if a cereal rust epidemic could be used as a biological weapon.

In 1950, in the San Fran Bay Area Bacillus globigii and Serratia marcescens were aerosolized from a ship. The reason? To study how biological weapons could affect a port. Eleven people were reported at Stanford University's hospital to have been infected by Serratia marcescens. One died. The disease had previously never been seen at that hospital.

Minneapolis was experimented on in 1953 with zinc cadmium sulfide. Over 60 times it was released over the city.

Zinc cadmium sulfide was also released over St. Louis at the same time period.

The Washington D.C. area (Leesburg and parts of Maryland) was exposed to aerial spraying of zinc cadmium sulfide combined with lycopodium spores at the same period. (1953)

Tampa Bay was exposed to the whooping cough bacteria in 1955. The cases of whooping cough in Florida rose from 339 and one death in 1954, to 1080 and 12 deaths in 1955.

Mosquitos released over Savannah, Georgia. A dangerous experiment used to see if mosquitos could carry a BW agent. 1956-58

A famous case involving New York City subways in which trillions of bacillus subtilis variant niger were released into the system during rush hour. The title of the study? "A Study of the Vulnerability of Subway Passengers in New York City to Covert Attack with Biological Agents" Chicago was part of a similar experiment involving their subway system as well.

They killed a bunch of sheep (6,400) accidently in Utah in 1968 testing open air nerve gases. Blew down wind... who'd have thunk? (kind of reminds me of Khamisiyah. Not as flagrant, though)

And many, many more.

But of course, the world cannot allow the precedent to be set that using chemical weapons or biological weapons will be tolerated. North Korea might get some ideas.


That is forgetting the eternally poisoned areas affected by depleted uranium, white phosphorus and tungsten.

The babies being born cyclops.

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Going to read "Killing Hope" next. It goes into a lot more detail on the various interventions and war crimes.


You can read it at this "grey web" link

h***ttp://books.google.com/books?id=-IbQvd13uToC&pg=PA13

remove *** and where it says "PA13", you can change it from page PA1 to PA454; some pages don't work, but most are there.