If I Could Be So Bold... I'd Like To Ask Any Actual Former "Warriors" How They Feel About...

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18. Don't you think the use of gas weapons demands a strong response?

I mean, these weapons aren't like other forms of artillery - they can't be targeted at combatants specifically, and they are more likely to kill civilians, children, house-pets than they are to kill combatants. And in fact, every time they've been used in the past 30 years, that I know of anyway, they were actually targeting civilians. Saddam Hussein didn't use conventional weapons to strike terror in the town of Halabja, he used a mix of poison gasses to commit genocide, killing between 3200 and 5000 people and injuring 7,000+ more, many of which died from complications later on.



We (the world community) should have acted against Saddam Hussein then (and we [America] certainly shouldn't have been complicit - but that's no excuse for inaction now) and we should act against Assad now, imo.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack

I saw things that I won't forget for as long as I live. It started with a loud strange noise that sounded like bombs exploding, and a man came running into our house, shouting, 'Gas! Gas!' We hurried into our car and closed its windows. I think the car was rolling over the bodies of innocent people. I saw people lying on the ground, vomiting a green-colored liquid, while others became hysterical and began laughing loudly before falling motionless onto the ground. Later, I smelled an aroma that reminded me of apples and I lost consciousness. When I awoke, there were hundreds of bodies scattered around me. After that I took shelter again in a nearby basement and the area was engulfed by an ugly smell. It was similar to rotting garbage, but then it changed to a sweet smell similar to that of apples. Then I smelled something that was like eggs.
When you hear people shouting the words 'gas' or 'chemicals' -- and you hear those shouts spreading among the people -- that is when terror begins to take hold, especially among the children and the women. Your loved ones, your friends, you see them walking and then falling like leaves to the ground. It is a situation that cannot be described -- birds began falling from their nests; then other animals, then humans. It was total annihilation. Whoever was able to walk out of the town, left on foot. Whoever had a car, left by car. But whoever had too many children to carry on their shoulders, they stayed in the town and succumbed to the gas."[8]