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... at dailyKos.  Apparently, a lot of people hadn't heard much about "Chemical Frans" (click here for the post).

As for mustard gas, it is extremely nasty stuff, obviously.  You can read about it here, including its effects, mode of action, etc.

For example:

Mustard gas is a powerful irritant and vesicant, used as a chemical warfare agent. The main risk of acute poisoning exists with the use of sulphur mustard vapour in war and occasionally during laboratory work. However, due to its persistence poisoning may occur at a later stage.

Target organs: Skin, eyes, respiratory tract, bone marrow.

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Nausea, fatigue, headache, eye inflammation with intense eye pain, lachrymation, blepharospasm, photophobia and rhinorrhoea, followed by reddening of face and neck, soreness of throat and increased pulse and respiratory rate develop at two to six hours post exposure.  

Six to twenty four hours post exposure the above symptoms are generally increased in severity and are accompanied by skin inflammation followed by blister formation in the warmest areas such as genito-perineal area, buttocks, axillae and on the inner aspects of thighs.

In the next twenty four hours the condition generally worsens, blistering becomes more marked, coughing appears. Mucus, pus and necrotic slough may be expectorated. Intense itching of skin and increased skin pigmentation occur.

Nice, huh?

If you look at my dailyKos post, you'll see my comment at the end that van Anraat saw footage of the Halabja attacks, and still wanted to sell thiodiglycol to Iraq.

The man has no remorse.  Too bad the law doesn't allow for a longer sentence.

by Plutonium Page (page dot vlinders at gmail dot com) on Sat Dec 24th, 2005 at 03:16:04 AM EST
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We don't want him! (4.00 / 6)

Send him to The Hague, where the ICC is ;-)

No, Donny, these men are nihilists, there's nothing to be afraid of.

by Plutonium Page on  Fri Dec 23, 2005 at 03:00:47 PM PDT

He would be a prize ghoul in a cell next to Milosevic or indeed Saddam chemicals runner Frans. Apparently the AIVD safe house in Amsterdam is vacant at the moment. Perhaps even the U.S. Embassy to be built like a Guantanamo bastion would suit as prison.

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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Hasbara is a dead language

by Oui (Oui) on Sat Dec 24th, 2005 at 04:16:33 AM EST
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I was referring to Rumsfeld, and I was being snarky.

Don't take my comments out of context, please.

by Plutonium Page (page dot vlinders at gmail dot com) on Sat Dec 24th, 2005 at 05:35:24 AM EST
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I was just trying to connect to your excellent HR diary @dKos.

The Hague would welcome him to stand before the ICC, there is no misunderstanding. I was just proposing some places to stay while Donald was on trial.  Scheveningen prison during WWII was referred to as Oranje Hotel.

Kissinger escaped, but he hasn't been in Europe since Spain caught up with Pinochet temporarily.

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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Hasbara is a dead language

by Oui (Oui) on Sat Dec 24th, 2005 at 06:46:30 AM EST
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Is well deserved. Personally I find the work done under the years of Justice Minister Donner has taken a turn for the better. Many difficult aspects of Dutch society had to be resolved, especially in a period of social unrest in the Netherlands, after the van Gogh murder in Amsterdam. The Hofstad Islamist group has been tackled.

How do you like your mayor Job Cohen, a very amiable person.

  «« click on pic for story Minister Donner

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

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Hasbara is a dead language

by Oui (Oui) on Sat Dec 24th, 2005 at 04:48:54 AM EST
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