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June 15, 2006
Make Love - Not War
Come a little bit closer... you're my kind of man...
The US military investigated building a "gay bomb", which would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible" to each other, government papers say.
so big and so strong... Come a little bit closer... I'm all alone... and the night is so long...
The plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
But wait... there's more...
Scientists also reportedly considered a "sting me/attack me" chemical weapon to attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats towards enemy troops.
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Another idea was to develop a chemical causing "severe and lasting halitosis", so that enemy forces would be obvious even when they tried to blend in with civilians.
But wait... there's more...
In a variation on that idea, researchers pondered a "Who? Me?" bomb, which would simulate flatulence in enemy ranks.
That's all well and good, and funny too. Ha ha. Ha. It beats sending our troops out door to door for terrorists. But...
can't we just kill the enemy and be done with it?
Posted by LindaSoG at June 15, 2006 07:47 AM
Comments
good old american inginuity
Posted by: jane at June 15, 2006 09:12 AM
Gay enemy soldiers? Wasn't that the "Habibi-bomb?"
Not at all surprised the America-bashing BBC (aka "Burning Bush Channel") would be the one to break the news.
Posted by: Kevin M at June 15, 2006 09:59 AM
Linda - I like your idea of just killing the enemy and getting it over with, but the eeeevil side of me wants them to create a bomb that 1) makes them do the chicken dance or 2) makes them do the moon dance like Michael Jackson. I think the war would be over and done with at that point. Heh.
Posted by: Merri at June 15, 2006 11:00 AM
Ahaha. Merri, I think even I could get behind the chicken dance.
Posted by: LindaSoG at June 15, 2006 11:25 AM
We missed our PC window in Afganistan. You notice that they're still in a hurry to kill everyone who's not Islamic and only produce poppies.
For about six months after September 11th the world would have accepted a major {atomic even} attack on those mountains. IF they would have grabbed the opportunity - Iraq, N. Korea and Iran may have just fallen in line - France wouldn't have backed SAD HAM and our people would have avoided combat?!
Posted by: chrys at June 15, 2006 06:56 PM
Chrys makes a very interesting point. I, for one, do not see Afghanistan becoming anything other than an excuse to keep American soldiers in that rat-hole for God knows how long. We would have made a much more effective point by turning it into a glass parking lot (and I definitely think Saddam would have taken Bush's invitation to leave Iraq and seek asylum with some other country, like Kuwait). Imagine all the trouble we could have avoided by lighting up the sky and frying bin Laden's ass in the bargain...and all those Taliban we STILL have to deal with.
Posted by: Kevin M at June 15, 2006 09:46 PM
If and when we pull out of the middle east, it will revert right back to what it has always been, a bunch of extreme backwards religious freaks living in caves and killing each other while plotting how to take over the world.
This PC crap is going to be the end of America.
Posted by: LindaSoG at June 16, 2006 06:56 AM