This Newly Declassified Video of the US Testing Chemical Weapons Is Insane

[LiberalArkie]

[wolfie001]

1. The voice actor sounds like Beaver Cleaver's dad

Which makes it even more insane!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

2. The 50s were really something, weren't they?

I love the way the narrator talks about biological weapons like he's talking up a new shopping center where happy consumers can purchase all manner of shiny new TV sets and modern kitchen appliances. And this is the era Republicans pine for a return to.

[LiberalArkie]

3. It really was insane looking back.

I went to get my flu shot and was talking about getting shots in grade school in the late 50's. I told her that the school nurse had the big stainless steel needle (like in the movies). She would fill it up and poke it in the arm of a kid and then with the same needle keep injecting us one after another until she had to refill it. No alcohol on the arm nothing. Knowledge has come a long way.

Growing up, I knew we would not grow up because of all the duck and cover drills. We knew we would not make it to be 25 because of the Viet Nam "conflict" and the chance of nuclear war. We sure as hell were not going to get old because of all the pollution and crap.

Damn it, made it to 67. I really do not know how in the hell that happened.

[Hoppy]

7. You got to 67 because McChimp made you safe.

[Locrian]

6. yes

Coming off WWII - drunk with power and faith in machines to be able to do *anything*

[w0nderer]

4. kick n/t

[niyad]

5. . . .

[Ed Suspicious]

8. Governments indiscriminately and secretively gassing other country's citizens. I thought a

certain Iraqi leader was dragged out of a spider hole and executed for the same.

[Miigwech]

9. Still wonder what Corexit did in the Gulf?

BP oil spill ... Corexit ... evaporation ... rain ........... where where the studies on this?

[Unknown Beatle]

10. When the US military was mostly responsible for winning WWII,

the pentagon was hollering, "Wow! Look at us! We're big and we're mighty. Might as well use it to bully other nations for years to come."

[november3rd]

11. We Are Sick

The banal, everyday tone of the narrative contrasts markedly with the sinister, horrific subject matter.

Leave it to the Navy!

Hey, now that this film is released, we're more acutely aware of the psychological issues our culture needs to address in our national discourse in order to try and overcome them.