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2004-06-14 Home Front: Politix

Army witholds anitdote for chemical terror attack

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-14 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Remind me please, aren't there a number of claim for disability and suffering now on behalf of numerous servicemembers because they were told to take drugs as a preventative to possible use of nerve agent on the battlefield in the first Gulf War? Haven't we seen claims in the past decade linking Gulf War Syndrome to the use of these drugs? It's one thing to place servicemembers in harms way since their claims are simply shuffled to the VA for handling under law, but the distribution to non-military members would place the federal government and the tax payer in a free fire zone for torte lawyers for years to come. Don't like it, then change the torte laws. Or in this case, I wonder if O'Dell and E-Z-EM would take all financial responsibility? Of course after making their money, they just go out of business, and the federal government would still be held liable.

Posted by Don 2004-06-14 8:49:01 AM|| 2004-06-14 8:49:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Take 2 Zoloft and call somebody who cares in the morning.

Posted by mojo 2004-06-14 10:37:43 AM|| 2004-06-14 10:37:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, this whole thing is utter hooey. First of all, it's just some buffered oxidizer. Like bleach but with some goop added to protect the skin. Which is good if your chemical agent is absorbed through the skin--which is not the kind of chemical weapon terrorists would use.
Terrorists would want to use a *vapor* weapon, like the SARIN used in the Tokyo subway. Most likely, they would choose whatever industrial toxic chemical they could get their hands on, out of the FIVE THOUSAND different chemicals that could work.
In other words, this thing is about as useful to civilians as the old Soviet "anti-radiation" pills (aspirin).

Posted by Anonymoose 2004-06-14 11:17:57 AM|| 2004-06-14 11:17:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I recall the "antidote" prescribed for the population of Australia in the great epic "On the Beach"

Does it cure it?
Hmmmmm.... it ends it.

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-14 11:22:38 AM|| 2004-06-14 11:22:38 AM|| Front Page Top

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