Chemical Warfare Quotes:

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

- Jurgen Habermas

topic: Government, Media, September 11, Chemical Warfare, American Media

In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapon stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Hillary Clinton's Senate speech, October 10, 2002.

topic: Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq, Inspectors, Invading Iraq

Plants can't very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them.

- Steven Pinker

topic: Toxins, Warfare, Want, Irritants, Chemical Warfare

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.

- Winston Churchill

source: Winston Churchill's statement as President of the Air Council in War Office Departmental Minute (the original document is in the collection of Churchill Papers 16/16 at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge), May 12, 1919.

topic: Use, Poison Gas, Tribes, Chemical Warfare, Retention

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist

- Winona LaDuke

source: "Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights" by Winona LaDuke, progressive.org. June 18, 2013.

topic: Drinking, Water, Warfare, Environmentalist, Chemical Warfare

In 1961, the United States began chemical warfare in Vietnam, South Vietnam, chemical warfare to destroy crops and livestock. That went on for seven years. The level of poison - they used the most extreme carcinogen known: dioxin. And this went on for years.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Years, United States, Warfare, Chemical Warfare

apartheid still hangs in the air like a poisonous cloud left over from chemical warfare.

- Dervla Murphy

topic: Clouds, Air, Racism, Chemical Warfare

How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and chemical manufacturing? The difference seems to be only that in war the victimization of humans is directly intentional and in industry it is "accepted" as a "trade-off." Were the catastrophes of Love Canal, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and the Exxon Valdez episodes of war or of peace? They were in fact, peacetime acts of aggression, intentional to the extent that the risks were known and ignored.

- Wendell Berry

topic: War, Differences, Risk, Modern War, Manufacturing

Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Military, Kentucky, Numbers, Military Bases, Colombia

Israel has WMD, and it has to sign [chemical warfare agreement], and Israel is occupying our land, so that's we talked about the Middle East, not Syria, not Israel ; it should be comprehensive.

- Bashar al-Assad

source: Source: legrandsoir.info

topic: Wmd, Israel, Agreement, Chemical Warfare

If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don't know. I'm not a fortuneteller to tell you what's going to happen.

- Bashar al-Assad

source: Source: legrandsoir.info

topic: Groups, Rebel, Warfare, Chemical Warfare

What was the invasion of South Vietnam, for example, in 1962, when Kennedy sent the Air Force to bomb South Vietnam and start chemical warfare? That's aggression.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: progressive.org

topic: Air, Invasion, Example, Chemical Warfare

The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam Hussein retains some stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and that he has since embarked on a crash course to build up his chemical and biological warfare capabilities. Intelligence reports indicate that he is seeking nuclear weapons...

- Robert Byrd

topic: Iraq, Nuclear, Biological Warfare, Inspectors, Weapons Of Mass Destruction

With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

- Dustin Lynch

topic: Jobs, Wish, Environmental, Chemical Warfare, Sewage

I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.

- Nicholson Baker

source: "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

topic: War, England, Colorado, Chemical Warfare, First World War

It's troubling to see how often Winston Churchill is a proponent of massive programs that are really aimed at civilians - starvation blockades and chemical warfare stockpiles and so on.

- Nicholson Baker

source: "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

topic: Warfare, Program, Chemicals, Chemical Warfare, Blockades