Trump's First 100 Days

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(04-12-2017, 11:22 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: 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.

I can buy a lot of weapons from Home Depot it would seem. The point I made in asking the question to you is that something used as a weapon is still a weapon, right? Not that this matters as the issue lies with his logic.

According to Spicer's second comment, he was referring to their use of chemical weapons on their own people by dropping them into cities. This is all technically true. Hitler didn't gas large groups of citizens, just specific undesirable citizens. The point of all of this was to suggest some level of vileness in Assad's actions that even Hitler wouldn't stoop to. Except, to accept this, we are to accept that mass murder is inherently more vile than genocide. 

So if we concede that his clarification to a specific scenario is true, you still have to reject the logic behind his argument. It's no different than saying, "Not even Hitler dropped nukes". I'm not suggesting Spicer doesn't know that Hitler used chemicals to kill nearly 1 million people, I'm suggesting that he is grossly trying to stretch the truth to make an obscene argument. 

Also, really? Obama saying "57 states"? That's not even close to someone misrepresenting facts to suggest someone did something so evil that even Hitler wouldn't do it. 



Just discussing history now, another thing I have read is that historians believed Hitler didn't use chemical weapons on the battlefield because he was worried that the allies had them too and wanted to prevent them from retaliating with their own chemical weapons, withholding unless the allies used them first.