Monday, June 11, 2007

The U.S. Air Force: "It's raining men"

File this one under "incredibly bizarre story," or maybe "ways Republicans piss away your tax money."

Something tells me that we need to cut back on the Air Force's R&D budget; I think maybe they've got too much time and money on their hands:
As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior."

The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.

"The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another," Hammond said after reviewing the documents.

"The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical, the notion was that soliders would become gay," explained Hammond.
This is too stupid to even bother making a joke about.

Read the complete story here.

1 comment:

Onemangang said...

This is one of the sickest stories I've ever heard. Now the Washington Post has found a source that confirms the US Marine Corps used the "gay bomb" in a marketing promotion CD-Rom as late as 2002. What's most disgusting is that they actually thought being gay would make the enemies worse soldiers. Shows what the Pentagon thinks about homosexuality.