Why didn't the US use knockout gas on the Hussein boys?

[Mika]

Even if it proved to be fatal (like the case in Russia) then at least there would be easily identifiable bodies for the masses to see. :shrug:

[Az]

1. They may have survived

to answer questions. Can't have facts. Would be messy with the story BushCo is trying to sell.

[wtmusic]

2. Because it was easier to destroy them

And we have all these wonderful overpowered weapons like TOW missiles which are really fun to let go. BOOM! BOOM! Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat! "We have engaged the enemy, SIR!" Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!

[Bandit]

3. Not that this would have stopped them but it is against Geneva Convention

Gas is an unlawful weapon by the Geneva Accords. I'm sure they didn't want those people alive and this was an assassination not a capture attempt.

[StandWatie]

4. Don't encourage chem warfare..

it's a damn slippery slope.

[TahitiNut]

5. Police arrest; military kills.

It's really that simple. Furthermore, neither police nor military actually solve the root problems leading to their necessity.

To paraphrase an old maxim: A penny of prevention is worth a quarter of cure. When, however, there're profits to be made then those who'd profit at the expense of others prefer the quarter to the penny.

How else can one possibly rationalize the fact that corporatized health care costs entire nations nearly 50% more than public health care? And both the quantity and quality of that corporatized direct care is less.

When there're enormous profits to be made from a problem, that 'problem' becomes the golden-egg-laying goose. To actually solve the problem is viewed by the recipients of golden eggs as killing the goose. Our nation has spent more than $20-30 billion on (purportedly) cleaning up the enormous amount of massively toxic radioactive waste at the Hanford Reservation in Eastern Washington. It's nowhere near done even though they've been at it for decades. Corporations such as Westinghouse, GE, Bechtel, SAIC, Battelle, and others have collected many billions in public monies. Those same wealthy interests profited in the very creation of that toxic waste -- created during a 40-year 'problem' of the Cold War which resulted from the 'problem of WW2 which was created by the 'problem' of fascism which was nothing but corporatist predation run amok!

When we have problems in public education, those problems are exacerbated when corporatism smells a profiteering opportunity.

When corporations were long-ago conceived as a vehicle whereby private projects and endeavors of benefit to the public could be undertaken and the risk to those engaged in such endeavors not threaten all their accumulated wealth, it was not countenanced that such corporations would either be 'artificial persons' or that those 'persons' would be immortal. They were conceived to be of a single specified purpose of limited duration and to exist only to achieve that strictly limited purpose, after which they'd cease to exist.

When, however, corporations become motivated to be immortal and perpetually ensure their own 'survival' (including feeding, reproduction, and growth), then the very reasons for their existence when associated with a humanitarian 'problem' are themselves perpetuated. This is why privatization of any endeavor associated with human welfare is corrupt.

Iraq is a case in point. As long as Iraq has 'problems' from which corporations can profit at the expense of people, there will be no end to thoe problems.

[donsu]

6. agree

Iraq is a money maker

[TahitiNut]

7. "The love of money is the root of all evil."

A 'corporation' whose entire raison d'etre is the accumulation (love) of money can be nothing else.