According to Juan Williams, chemical weapons have only been used three times in history, and apparently Hitler invented them....
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-ne...aul-filibuster
Appalling misinformation. The history of chemical warfare is as old as war itself. From poisoning wells and water supplies to the Chinese use of arsenic smoke. Greeks and Romans used it. The English Navy used calcium oxide to blind a French Fleet during the reign of Henry the third.
Williams idiotic slanted and condensed narrative seems completely oblivious to the fact that modern chemical warfare(if there is indeed a difference, which he didn't bother to specify) began in World War I, and Hitler more than likely wasn't calling the shots back then.
Personally I don't even think you can draw a line between ancient and modern chemical warfare. But if you want to defend the idiot I guess you'd have to start there, and tell me, "what he really meant was..."
Not to mention his glaring lack of knowledge about that agent orange stuff.
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JUAN WILLIAMS, FOX NEWS POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I think the ghosts of Vietnam and what happened in Iraq still haunt this administration. But I think it's very clear that what the president has to say is, look, there have been three times in history that we have seen chemical weapons used. And it's, you know, Hitler, you know, you move forward Hitler to Saddam Hussein and then you come to Bashar al-Assad. And you've got to say there is the potential here for international anarchy if the U.S. doesn't act. |
Appalling misinformation. The history of chemical warfare is as old as war itself. From poisoning wells and water supplies to the Chinese use of arsenic smoke. Greeks and Romans used it. The English Navy used calcium oxide to blind a French Fleet during the reign of Henry the third.
Williams idiotic slanted and condensed narrative seems completely oblivious to the fact that modern chemical warfare(if there is indeed a difference, which he didn't bother to specify) began in World War I, and Hitler more than likely wasn't calling the shots back then.
Personally I don't even think you can draw a line between ancient and modern chemical warfare. But if you want to defend the idiot I guess you'd have to start there, and tell me, "what he really meant was..."
Not to mention his glaring lack of knowledge about that agent orange stuff.