Trump's First 100 Days

[Sociopathicsteelerfan]

(04-12-2017, 11:16 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: So it was a chemical being used as a weapon, but since it wasn't designed to be a weapon, it's not a chemical weapon. 

I'm asking this next question genuinely knowing you can give a professional answer: If I kill someone with a rake, is that rake considered a weapon?

There's a simple answer to this, can you buy chemical weapons at Home Depot?  If you think pesticide is a chemical weapon then your answer is yes.  There is a huge difference between a weaponized chemical agent and a poisonous chemical.  Even with this distinction the outrage over Spicer's statement is manufactured, he was making the point that not even Nazi Germany deployed chemical agents on the battlefield, which is correct. It was a poorly phrased point but it was a correct one.  Again, does anyone really think Obama doesn't know there are 50 states?  Does anyone really think that Spicer is unaware of the Holocaust?

As an aside, it is largely considered by historians that Hitler refused to use chemical warfare due to his experiences with it in WW1.  By the same token his experience in WW1 led him to believe that the standard infantryman didn't need a better rifle than the k98.