Chicken defense. (Debate It!).Marines stationed in Kuwait Kuwait (k  wīt`, –wāt) or Kowait (kō`–), officially State of Kuwait, independent sheikhdom (2005 est. pop. recently purchased 43 chickens--and not
for a barbecue barbecue [West Indian or South American], in the United States, traditionally an open-air gathering, political or social, in which meats are roasted whole over a pit of embers and food and drink are liberally enjoyed. . The live chickens were to serve as a low-tech chemical
detection system, like the canaries coalminers once used to detect
poisonous poi·son·ousadj. Relating to or caused by a poison. poisonous having the properties of a poison. poisonous bride's bush pavettaschumanniana. gases underground. "While chickens have lungs like we do, they also have something called air sacks," says bird specialist Ian Tizard at Texas A&M University. "If something really nasty is in the air, it would kill a chicken faster than it would a human." Sadly, all but two of the marines' chickens have already died--from illness, not chemical weapons. Should Operation Kuwaiti Field Chicken (KFC KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken (restaurant chain) KFC Kenya Flower Council KFC Kitchen Fresh Chicken (Kentucky Fried Chicken motto) KFC Kung Fu Cult (Cinema) KFC Kitchen Fixed Charge ) be scrapped? |
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