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In reply to the discussion: If President Obama wants to send a message against the use of chemical weapons; why doesn't he [View all]Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)17. USAMRIID at Fort Detrick does alot of important work with infectious diseases
It was once a bioweapon lab but now it does alot of important work with WHO and CDC, etc.
I know that there is always the chance that secret programs might be going on, but I hate to see scientists who do inportant and very dangerous work to help others be lumped into the chemical weapons argument.
When a monkey quarantine outside DC had a problem with airborne Ebola in monkeys (unbelievably scary, fortunately it was limited to monkeys and not humans) it was USAMRIID that answered the call there. They also do testing from all sorts of outbreaks all over the world. Level 4 labs are no joke.
Viruses and the people who work on them have been a topic of great interest to me since the loss of a friend during the swine flu pandemic.
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If President Obama wants to send a message against the use of chemical weapons; why doesn't he [View all]
Vincardog
Sep 2013
OP
That article presupposes the necessity for the US to do SOMETHING about this alleged use of CW.
Vincardog
Sep 2013
#6
That misses the point which is "Why are we still manufacturing Chemical Weapons?".
Vincardog
Sep 2013
#11
Now you think Obama was Lying when he told us all he intended to send said "message"?
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#21
LOL, you are becoming most entertaining, keep it up little hawk, you have a place here
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#25
Humanitarian hawking is the best kind, those we kill can sign treaties for instance...
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#27
so as an accused hawk...would I have to have supported every war or not?
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#29
and if wanting the world to eliminate chemical weapons makes me a hawk...so be it...
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#30
No, you are doing just fine, hawks need only support the war of the moment and the idea
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#32
Judging by the sheer number of your posts advocating killing (bombs kill they don't spread love)
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#39
Not advocating killing....Advocating removing the Chemical Weapons from the world...
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#40
How would Congress be able to pass a law outlaw the manufactoring of chemical weapons in
lumpy
Sep 2013
#19
It didn't help that the British were supplying the chemicals to Syria after the conflict started!
Rosa Luxemburg
Sep 2013
#36