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Sunday, September 10, 2006

Weapon of...er...choice

Who can resist a man in uniform? That seems to be the basic premise reportedly used in 1994 by the US defense department while considering various non-lethal chemicals meant to "disrupt enemy discipline and morale". At the top of the priority list was the manufacture of a 'gay bomb' – a weapon that would make enemy soldiers "sexually irresistible to each other". While that may seem a more humane way of dealing with the enemy, the question that remains unanswered was what effect the 'gay bomb' --- not to be confused with Enola Gay, the bomber which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima --- would have on dyed-in-wool homosexuals.

Turning on --- and then turning in -- the enemy isn't the only project that was in the proposed six year, $ 7.5 million plan......

(HT editorial, unknown date)

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