To Jom "The Impartial":
I know how great is the credence you put on any item in print relating to alleged and unconfirmed happenings when it suits your purposes and how little you regard documented and verified fact from official sources when it does not. Your contributions in general terms are baseless, ill-founded biased rants interspersed with colour and block capitals. I very rarely pay them any attention.

By the bye WP is not a chemical weapon and neither is Agent Orange which is a herbicide.

Still no word from all those ex-US Servicemen about the chemical weapons they all prepared, handled and used eh? If what you hold to be true was in fact correct we would have by now been inundated with horrendous tales of atrocities committed by US troops, hideous accidents relating to accidental release of these agents, sale of such munitions by unscrupulous corrupt US servicemen to even more dastardly and unscrupulous terrorists. But instead of all or any of that we are regaled by the sound of silence. - That tell you anything Jom? To me it speaks volumes.

To mayomick: Being as aware of the workings and statements of the OPCW as you no doubt are then you must accept their definition by intent.

Dual-use items are only chemical weapons if they were exported, imported of manufactured specifically for and intended for use in direct connection with the release of a chemical agent to cause death or harm.

Artillery shells, rockets and mortar munitions are only chemical weapons if they were exported, imported of manufactured specifically for and intended for use in direct connection with the release of a chemical agent to cause death or harm.

I would imagine that in arid places with poor soil quality the need for fertilizer would be considered essential to increase the productivity of the soil and boost agricultural output - So no fertilizer can be sold in case they might be used to produce chemical weapons? - Bloody ridiculous - but I think you know that as well as I do, in fact as well as the chaps at OPCW do as they do not wish to unnecessarily hindered legitimate uses of chemicals and the economic and technological development or impose restrictions on any State Party's right to acquire and retain conventional weapons and their associated delivery systems nor the right to produce and use chemicals for peaceful purposes.