Dread L0rd Kaolian wrote:
Hmmm, slowly falling blobs of burning stuff that might possibly kill someone standing under it if it were mistimed and exploded too low, or a shrapnal shell, which will kill everything under it. Hmmm, tough choice.
Gee, you make it sound highly unlikley that you can killed by this stuff huh? I guess the hundreds of Iraqi civillians that were killed by it were just really unlucky.
It's not really a tough choice. Put it this way, would you rather be shot in the leg (which is really what bomb shrapnel is like) or would you rather me drop a blob of white phosphorous on your thigh? I'll take the shrapnel thanks. At least I know that if I got a piece of shrapnel through my head I'm gonna die pretty quickly as opposed to have a white hot chemical slowly burn through my scalp and skull and then into my brain.
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Tear gas can cause allergic reactions, death, and is highly flammable in any form of enclosed space or concentrations in open areas.
The fact that you're still trying to convince us that tear gas is more of an issue shows what a ****** you are. If you're so right, I'm sure the American public would not complain if the police used white phosphorous to clear a bunch of protesters rather than the "deadly" tear gas.
Or even better, maybe the U.S. army should be using tear gas to break the backs of the Iraqi insurgents. I mean. we've seen what white phosphorous does, so imagine what tear gas will do?!!
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The higher a phosphorus shell is when it detonates, the less of it remains burning by the time it hits the ground.
Have you ever let off a flare before? There is hardly any phosphorous inside those things yet they can burn for quite a while. I can guarantee you that you can light one of them up, drop it off the CN tower, and it will still burn for several minutes after it hit the ground.
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Go look up the figures for tear gas related deaths and estimated white phosphorus deaths and see for yourself. This **** aint napalm people.
Sigh. How can you make a statement like that by pure speculation without even checking the statistics yourself? Think about it. Tear gas is used around the world on a daily basis. As far as we know, white phosphorous is not. Even if we searched, I'm sure we wouldn't even be able to find stats on it because why would the U.S. post them if they didn't even admit to using these kinds of weapons until recently? Even if we did have the stats, I'm sure your would find that tear gas can't even compare to the deadliness of phosphorous. Hundreds of civillians were supposedly killed by this weapon in Falujah alone. I have never heard of hundreds of people being killed by tear gas.
This is not a Liberal rant on US actions in Iraq. I'm just refuting a plain stupid comment that tear gas is more of an issue than white phosphorous.