The Mikado
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« on: October 17, 2019, 12:04:17 AM » |
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The most likely case would be (and tbh it's legitimately shocking that this didn't happen) that Saddam still had leftover stockpiles of chemical weapons, especially chlorine or mustard gas, squirreled away somewhere. They're absurdly easy to make (you can make chlorine gas with the stuff under your kitchen sink, technically), don't pose the difficulty of more advanced gases like VX or Sarin, let alone the difficulty of biological and nuclear weapons, and are...completely ineffective as an actual tool of warfare in the 21st century.
Lumping chemical weapons in with biological and nuclear weapons is an absurdity. A very powerful chemical weapon, Sarin, was unleashed in absolutely ideal circumstances on a subway in Japan in 1995 and "only" killed 12 people out of over 1,000 exposed. Chlorine and mustard gas were out of date 100 years ago and, while exceptionally cruel ways to kill someone, are NOT tools of "mass destruction" in any real sense. They deserve to be banned for the same reason land mines are banned: it's not that land mines are tools of mass destruction, it's that they're tools of war crimes.
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