Saddam Martyrs on Steroids

[Sigmund Roid]

This is a nice link about amphetamines and US soldiers. It is funny that the US has very strict laws concerning drugs, yet they do not hesitate to drug up and fuck up soldiers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2595641.stm



Drugs involved in friendly fire deaths


The 'friendly fire' killed four Canadian soldiers



By Michael Buchanan
BBC correspondent in Washington


Two American pilots accused in a fatal "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan took amphetamines before it occurred, an enquiry has found.
The pilots were taking the drugs prescribed by the United States military when they killed four Canadians last April, according to US Air Force investigators.

They are awaiting a court martial hearing due to start next month.


The Canadians who died were serving in Kandahar
US Air Force majors Harry Schmidt and William Umbach face up to 64 years in prison following the incident over Kandahar.

The pilots thought they were being fired at and dropped a laser-guided missile on their presumed attackers.

It was only when they had killed four people and injured eight that they were told the group were Canadian soldiers taking part in a night live-fire exercise and that they had informed the US military.

But it has now emerged that about an hour before the incident the two men had taken amphetamines, or speed as it is commonly known, that had been given to them by the US Air Force.

'Go'-pills

The pills, which are illegal in the US, are given to combat pilots who are involved in long eight or nine-hour sorties in small controlled doses, say the military.

The Air Force stopped prescribing the 'Go' pills, as they are known by the pilots, in 1993 after reports that crews using them during the Gulf War became addicted.

But the drug has been quietly reintroduced in recent years.

The Air Force says they are a medical tool that is essential for combat pilots being sent to war over Afghanistan and, possibly, Iraq.

 

[kidvilla]

meth use would make much more sense as anabolics (even cheque drops) are largely ineffective without food (and we know the troops didn't exactly have plentiful food)(yes, some folks might benefit in starvation from androgens, but im talking out of 10,000, not too many will)... since meth is cheap, requires no food, and keeps you up all night, if i were saddam (perish the thought, but for the sake of this argument), chosing meth would be a no-brainer... either that or any other fast-acting, euphoric drugs ... because besides the need for food, almost nobody likes to inject anything that isn't going to provide immediate pleasure (a common problem for steroid injections)...

and track marks? most steroid users would actually have scar tissue , but track marks (if i remember my nursing studies) are for veins, but i could be wrong, nevertheless, meth and other amphetamines (which im sure he could have easily stockpiled) are easy to make and a better idea for him at least as it pertains to his strategy (which is not the point of discussion, but it is pertinent to why he would chose one drug)