From: "Mark" 

This guy seems to explain it pretty well (he'd be dead if all the hype were
true, he says :

http://www.soldiersperspective.us/?p=705

"Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
news:pan.2005.11.17.02.50.35.960200{at}shultzinfosystems.com...
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 00:36:08 +0000, Adam wrote:
>
>> Gary Britt wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not concerned about the munitions of USA forces.
>>
>> Gosh that's nice. So all that crap about gas etc was just crap. Nice to
>> know.
>>
>>
> If you are talking about Willy Pete, yep, that's all it was - just crap.
> Stuff has been _widely_ used (heck, it's in a hand grenade) since WW II.
>
> By pretty much everyone, too.
>
> It's a chemical weapon only in the way any non-nuclear explosive is a
> chemical weapon - it derives it's power from a chemical reaction.
>

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