For more than 30 years, the United States has worked tirelessly to eliminate our chemical weapons stockpile. Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition in that stockpileā€”bringing us one step closer to a world free from the horrors of chemical weapons.Ā Successive administrations have determined that theseā€¦

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    1 year ago

    What are you talking about?!

    Agent Orange, White Phosphorous, crowd control conpounds (like tear gas, ā€œpepperā€ munitions, etc). Napalm was used in Iraq and Kuwait.

    What youā€™re talking about is the US not using a very specific list of very specific weapons that are effective due to their chemical properties and the way those chemicals interact with human bodies. It is by no means a comprehensive list of munitions with similar chemical properties.

    And it is a classic imperialist move to make a list of some chemical weapons, call the list The List Of Chemical Weapons and they develop new chemical weapons that arenā€™t on the list and say ā€œThese arenā€™t chemical weapons because they arenā€™t on the listā€.