Military Mortuary Services......

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Was watching a show on Fox News late last nite about what the Armed Forces are going to do if Chemical/Biological weapons are used against our soldiers in Iraq.

They had a plan to just leave the bodies alone, mass graves, or burning, but because it's such an emotional topic they scrubbed that plan.

The problem is bringing contaminated remains back to American Soil possibly causing contamination, and an outbreak of diseases such as small pox.

It was an interesting topic, and they also spoke about something I never heard of...which was that when the Native Indians were being stripped of their native land...America, that blankets were issued to them containing certain biological entities causing death, and sickness....anyone care to elaborate on this????????

Anyone caring to discuss their feelings of risking lives of soldiers to retrieve fallen soldiers that are biologically infected....feel free.
 
Killswitch said:
Was watching a show on Fox News late last nite about what the Armed Forces are going to do if Chemical/Biological weapons are used against our soldiers in Iraq.

They had a plan to just leave the bodies alone, mass graves, or burning, but because it's such an emotional topic they scrubbed that plan.

The problem is bringing contaminated remains back to American Soil possibly causing contamination, and an outbreak of diseases such as small pox.

It was an interesting topic, and they also spoke about something I never heard of...which was that when the Native Indians were being stripped of their native land...America, that blankets were issued to them containing certain biological entities causing death, and sickness....anyone care to elaborate on this????????

Anyone caring to discuss their feelings of risking lives of soldiers to retrieve fallen soldiers that are biologically infected....feel free.

The indians were given blankets contaminated with smallpox.
 
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RosevilleCAguy said:
The indians were given blankets contaminated with smallpox.

Man, I have never heard this before......For a long time I have ripped the US for being the only country to use fision type explosives against other humans, and realized that we invented VX gas, and other bio weaponry, but never imagined we have actually used bio weapons against anyone, especially OUR OWN PEOPLE!

If anyone can direct me to a website speaking to this Indian thing I could dig it.

How many others didnt know about this atrocity......
 
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Killswitch said:
Man, I have never heard this before......For a long time I have ripped the US for being the only country to use fision type explosives against other humans, and realized that we invented VX gas, and other bio weaponry, but never imagined we have actually used bio weopons against anyone, especially OUR OWN PEOPLE!

If anyone can direct me to a website speaking to this Indian thing I could dig it.

How many others didnt know about this atrocity......

It wasn't the Americans. It was the first Europeans who came here.
 
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RosevilleCAguy said:
The indians were given blankets contaminated with smallpox.
edited for mistatement

shhh RCA, the hypocrisy of our founding fathers will be exposed....
oh and ks, we agree on this? Miracles never cease. The end is near.
 
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RosevilleCAguy said:
It wasn't the Americans. It was the first Europeans who came here.

Yeah but still....sheeshez christ....I never read about this in my history books.....did anyone else???????

I mean I slam Saddam for using bio crap against the Kurds.....but the same thing was done on our own soil by the fathers of this country?????????
 
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brokenbrainwave said:
edited for mistatement

shhh RCA, the hypocrisy of our founding fathers will be exposed....
oh and ks, we agree on this? Miracles never cease. The end is near.

Naturally, all other countries are as pure as the driven snow.
 
Killswitch said:
Hmmmmm I like this already.....white robes, baseball bats, barbed wire, wooden fences.

This has all the makings of a crime scene......now all we need is the sacraficial lamb.

Killswitch said:
Now all we need is an aluminum bat, some barbed wire, and a victim........Instead of seeing God.....someone would be meeting God.


Tell him I said hello.
 
RosevilleCAguy said:
Naturally, all other countries are as pure as the driven snow.
but the natives got even, they gave the settlers STD's.

Sorta makes us all even, eh?


(ps:that founding fathers thingy was a shot at the Europeans)
 
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Killswitch said:
Yeah but still....sheeshez christ....I never read about this in my history books.....did anyone else???????

I mean I slam Saddam for using bio crap against the Kurds.....but the same thing was done on our own soil by the fathers of this country?????????

General history books suck.

Not the fathers of the US. More like the Spanish Conquestedors, the East India Trading Company, etc.
 
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brokenbrainwave said:
edited for mistatement

shhh RCA, the hypocrisy of our founding fathers will be exposed....
oh and ks, we agree on this? Miracles never cease. The end is near.

Right.....


And the Bullshit, and hypocrisy of this country never ceases either....what a crock of shit......and I am sure we used bio weapons of sorts in Vietnam too......for sure the Mecoprop in agent orange killed many....even our own people....again....sheesh
 
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RosevilleCAguy said:
General history books suck.

Not the fathers of the US. More like the Spanish Conquestedors, the East India Trading Company, etc.

Right on....but its still news to me.

Interesting news to say the least.
 
brokenbrainwave said:
but the natives got even, they gave the settlers STD's.

Sorta makes us all even, eh?


(ps:that founding fathers thingy was a shot at the Europeans)

The thing I love about the "Morally Superior" postion adopted by so many others is that they ignore thier own past.

If you look at the situation in the Middle East, an awful lot was created by European politics of the 20th century.

In effect, we are cleaning their mess.
 
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RosevilleCAguy said:
In effect, we are cleaning their mess.
and this is new just how?

WW1

WW2

This is why I say screw 'em, suck up the ecomomic fall and go isolationist for 10 or so years.

We'd wobble, they'd crumble.
 
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Killswitch said:
Right.....


And the Bullshit, and hypocrisy of this country never ceases either....what a crock of shit......and I am sure we used bio weapons of sorts in Vietnam too......for sure the Mecoprop in agent orange killed many....even our own people....again....sheesh

A buddy of mine was a tunnel rat. When he first started, he said they used tear gas to clear the tunnels. Protestors complained about how it was inhumane. He told me that they switched tactics and used a jerrycan full of gasoline and a regular grenade instead.

Only difference to him was they no longer had prisoners.
 
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brokenbrainwave said:
and this is new just how?

WW1

WW2

This is why I say screw 'em, suck up the ecomomic fall and go isolationist for 10 or so years.

We'd wobble, they'd crumble.

As tempting as that is, I think the only difference it would make in the current situation is the price we would pay down the road.
 
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RosevilleCAguy said:
It wasn't the Americans. It was the first Europeans who came here.

Now don't be blamin' me Viking forefathers!

The smallpox-blanket strategy was created in 1763 by a captain in the British Army. The commanding general of the British Army, Sir Jeffry Amherst, promoted its use Army-wide, with spectacular results.

The Americans liked the idea so much they named a college after Amherst (in New York) and adopted the "smallpox blanket" as their own "weapon of mass destruction".
 
brokenbrainwave said:
but the natives got even, they gave the settlers STD's.





I always blame STD's and Bad music on the Irish......am I wrong about that too???????

lol
 
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brokenbrainwave said:

This is why I say screw 'em, suck up the ecomomic fall and go isolationist for 10 or so years.

We'd wobble, they'd crumble.


What he said.......
 
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ThrobDownSouth said:
Now don't be blamin' me Viking forefathers!


I would never blame them. Anybody who suppliemented their living by burning down churches is OK in my book.:D

thanks for the historical reference.

The use of disease as a weapon goes back throughout human history. Its nothing new.
 
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RosevilleCAguy said:
As tempting as that is, I think the only difference it would make in the current situation is the price we would pay down the road.
me thinks not. They would falter, they would eventually grovel and finally stop holding us up by the balls. Yes, the economic price we would pay in the short term, say 25 years, would be astounding. However the long term would mean a safer more sound future for our children and their children. Look at how dependent Europe is upon American spending. They'd fold like a off the rack suit bought at Sears.
 
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Killswitch said:
What he said.......


I still disagree. I think it would result in millions of deaths rather than tens of thousands.
 
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brokenbrainwave said:
me thinks not. They would falter, they would eventually grovel and finally stop holding us up by the balls. Yes, the economic price we would pay in the short term, say 25 years, would be astounding. However the long term would mean a safer more sound future for our children and their children. Look at how dependent Europe is upon American spending. They'd fold like a off the rack suit bought at Sears.

It ain't the Euros I'm worried about.
 
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