[jaguar]

Maggie from all accounts it was a military nerve agent, i don't think it was meant to be non-lethal when it was developed for a start. Secondly those types of chems affect different people in wildly different ways, enough to cause one person to feel sick is enough to kill someone else. Until more is known about the agent in question its pointless to draw any conclusions from it, although i can't blame the Russians for their approach, it was an extremely dangerous situation.

As for your rather entertaining conclusion I'd love to know how you can assume that everything from teargas to netguns to beanbag rounds to watercannons to some classes of microwave weapons to bioactive agents that attack fuel and gunpowder are clearly lethal. Yes, if you try hard enough you can kill someone with pretty much anything (Harry from lock stock and two smoking barrels comes to mind), doesn't mean its easy, or intended for that purpose, weaponary included. I also don't see how the issues are connected unless your playing 6 degrees of flamewar seperation.