Mellotronists

> I feel ashamed to consider myself a member of the same species as 
> the US & UK governments and militaries.
> 
> End of off-topic.
> 
> Andy T.

Maybe this will make you feel better - creative new ideas from the 
Pentagon for winning the war without all that nasty fighting ...

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524823.800&print=true

THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical 
weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, 
newly declassified documents reveal.

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of 
an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers 
sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual 
behaviour among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-
lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says.

Other ideas included chemical weapons that attract swarms of enraged 
wasps or angry rats to troop positions, making them uninhabitable.

Another was to develop a chemical that caused "severe and lasting 
halitosis", making it easy to identify guerrillas trying to blend in 
with civilians. 

There was also the idea of making troops' skin unbearably sensitive 
to sunlight.