I should have added anthrax, hemmoragic fevers and other bugs that were being actively manufactured and stored. This had been unallowable by treaty since the early 70's. Another treaty that was not honored. The latest excursion for them is breaking the INF Treaty on development of intermediate range missiles. Note that the do not honorably withdraw from a treaty (every treaty that I'm aware of has a clause that speaks to that), no, they just cheat to gain advantage.
Yeah, that's a knee-slapper!
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Really? How many died? Where and when? I'm serious, not facetious.
Well, since you're serious, I'll reply.
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Funny story. Early 80's Huntsville, AL. News story says chemical weapons being tested at Redstone Arsenal (they did test with simulants to train with the chem agent detectors). So the reporter goes to the Mayor and Police Chief at their favorite breakfast place, shoves a mic in their face and says, did you know they were testing chemical warfare weapons in open air at Redstone (accusatory tone of course)? The Mayor leans back, finishes picking his teeth, clears his throat and says, Wal, I guess those boys know what they're doin.
The reporter didn't know what to say. They never acknowledged their stupid mistake.
Not a funny story: We had this war in a place called Vietnam, and in that war be liberally sprayed the residents and our troops with defoliant...
Maybe try going to a Veterans Hospital and speak to some our 'Nam vets. A lot of them died after being sprayed with Agent Orange. You know, knowingly poisoned by the government with very toxic chemicals that alters DNA?
You can Google Agent Orange yourself...
And then there was this chestnut from the Cold War that I'm pretty sure you're rather aware of:
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As leaves turned red, and as San Francisco segued into the smoky autumn of 1950, Edward Nevin lay dying in a hospital bed.
A rare bacteria had entered his urinary tract, made its way through his bloodstream, and clung to his heart -- a bacteria that had never been seen in the hospital’s history. Before researchers could hypothesize the bacteria's root cause, ten more patients were admitted with the same infection. Doctors were baffled: how could have this microbe presented itself?
For nearly thirty years, the incident remained a secret -- until Edward Nevin’s grandson set out to bring about justice.
What ensued was a series of terrifying revelations: for two decades, the United States government had intentionally doused 293 populated areas with bacteria. They'd done this with secrecy. They’d done this without informing citizens of potentially dangerous exposure. They’d done this without taking precautions to protect the public’s health and safety, and with no medical follow-up
And it had all started in 1950, with the spraying of San Francisco.
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Of course, there are all the complete [censored] in the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 that did hideously gruesome things, and were conveniently never faced prosecution, unless they were unlucky enough to have been captured by the Soviets. You see, even though they essentially conducted autopsies on living subjects and used biological warfare on unfortunate Chinese civilians. But that didn't stop us from employing these demonic scum!
So yes sir, we're not so "innocent".
And of course, this little fun video showing U.S. Army (many of whom are probably draftees) being ordered to take LSD just to see what would happen:
