If there's any doubt left about the complete and utter
stupidity among idealogically-driven conservatives in our country, then the
following should drive it home. A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military
spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone
bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them
more interested in sex than fighting.
Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military
leaders had considered, and then subsequently rejected, building the so-called
"Gay Bomb."Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, had used
the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air
Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.
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 soldiers 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.
