[Cap Huff]

This dovetails with the reports about the drone. I find it interesting that here we have a recent defector and he's allowed to give an interview to a U.K. news source. People surely want this info out right now. Maybe that drone is the so-called smoking gun that some people feel such a need to see before jumping on board.

[piasa]

New news out on FOX is that the inspectors found a totally different missile type designed for chemwar.

It will be touted as a success for inspections, but th epress will forget that the fact it wan't reported in the first place means Iraq hasn't been cooperating. As if we don't know that already...

[Jim Noble]

>>Maybe that drone is the so-called smoking gun that some people feel such a need to see before jumping on board<<

No one who is not on board already gives a rat's a** about Iraq.

It's us they're against, and it doesn't matter at all what Iraq does or doesn't do.

Let's roll.

[SpinyNorman]

You have to wonder how much of this is Saddam's psyops. While I have no doubt that he has these weapons, it is interesting that these guys are coming over right now with this little gift to our troops. Of course, it works in the President's favor, and an analysis of the " ".....complete protection gear, gas masks, first aid kit, injections...." should tell us precisely what he plans to use.

[SpinyNorman]

You have to wonder how much of this is Saddam's psyops. While I have no doubt that he has these weapons, it is interesting that these guys are coming over right now with this little gift to our troops. Of course, it works in the President's favor, and an analysis of the " ".....complete protection gear, gas masks, first aid kit, injections...." should tell us precisely what he plans to use.

[Kevin Curry]

Many people assume Saddam Hussein has used chemical weapons only once or twice. The popular image is that of a dead Kurdish woman and her infant child lying near a street gutter in the town of Halajba. And it is true that Iraqi forces killed more than 5000 Kurds with checmial weapons in that particular attack.

But Saddam Husesein has used chemical weapons far more often and freely than many people suppose. In Iraq's long war with Iran in the 1980s chemical wepaons were often his weapon of choice. He has used them hundreds of times, almost always as offensive weapons. Chemical attacks are one of the few military operations his otherwise incompetent soldiers and airmen have developed a knack for.

[prairiebreeze]

I don't think that it's even about Iraq anymore at the UN. It's about trans-Atlantic power struggles more and more it seems.

Prairie