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You have to love history and to me the most interesting part of our history has occurred in the past 150 years. One hundred years ago today, one of the first, if not the first, WMD attacks occurred on the front lines near Ypes.  The Germans after reviewing the international agreement on the ban of chemical weapons found a clause they could exploit. Realizing that the agreement they signed stated that chemical weapons must not be fired via artillery, they felt they were free to use the gases in any other fashion.  After waiting for the correct wind conditions to exist, they released dozens of tanks of chlorine gas into the air and allowed the cloud to drift over the Allied trenches and lines. In less than 30 minutes they effectively killed over 5000 troops and  injured as many more. People choked and drowned on their own secretions as their fluids burned and filled with fluid;  a most terrible way to die. This act led to a proliferation of gas attacks from both sides, each getting worse. Initially the only method to protect themselves was to urinate on their hankerchefs and breathe thru them to allow the ammonia in there urine to neutralize the chlorine.

It was such an attack later in the war that crippled and almost killed Adolph Hitler.  His recover in the hospital kept him out of the last parts of the war, and his disgust with the German leadership lead indirectly to the development of the **** party.

Today we have similar agreements in place, but there are always those who look at these agreements and attempt to subvert portions of them. you have to wonder what students of history will think of the agreements we are making today with parties such as North Korea and Iran.

Hillary in 2016?  Why not?  We've already had one "girly man" serving in office for the past 7 years, we might as well give her chance as well!

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