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Saya · 09-05-2013, 12:23 PM

Heh, I'm taking a history course this year on WWI and just had my first class, and we talked a bit about chemical warfare. The Geneva Protocol banned it, but the US didn't sign it until the 1970s, after using napalm and Agent Orange in Vietnam, and the US still supported Saddam Hussein and his use of chemical warfare in the Iraq-Iran War. Professor made a point that while after WWI it was considered distasteful to use it against other Western powers (it wasn't used in combat in WWII), the West had no problem using it against non-Western countries.

09-05-2013, 12:23 PM	#14
Saya Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 9,548	Heh, I'm taking a history course this year on WWI and just had my first class, and we talked a bit about chemical warfare. The Geneva Protocol banned it, but the US didn't sign it until the 1970s, after using napalm and Agent Orange in Vietnam, and the US still supported Saddam Hussein and his use of chemical warfare in the Iraq-Iran War. Professor made a point that while after WWI it was considered distasteful to use it against other Western powers (it wasn't used in combat in WWII), the West had no problem using it against non-Western countries.