US studies 'Iraqi chemical war plan'

The Times (U.K.) ^ | 09/21/2002 | Shyam Bhatia

[doug from upland]

Katie Couric and Tom Daschle want more proof. Scott Ritter is mystified (or drunk).

[PFKEY]

I have many reasons to believe this time around in Iraq will not involve a conventional ground force.

I believe the 'theater' will be contaminated.

The US will do the heavy bombing of all military targets and strangle to country until its people do the job on Sodom.

Well, that's how I would like to see it done anyway.

[Travis McGee]

I worry more about the WMD Saddam has already hidden in the USA, with directins to the caches to be given to terrorist sleepers in the event of his overthrow.

[TheGunny]

Does Iraq have a Navy?

[Nebr FAL owner]

I would like to have more info on how this document came into our possesion , given the rumors of shaky support of the elites in Iraq may have inspired some officer in a headquarters to send a copy to someone outside the HQ as a way of insuring good treatment of same officer/family after the destruction of the Iraqi military

[Nebr FAL owner]

Actually the U.S. policy is to reply with nuclear weapons i.e. the oficers in question won't hang they will simply register on gieger counters as they float around the upper reaches of the atmosphere for years to come as radioactive fallout

[Betty Jo]

Seems as though freepers have forgotten that Sadam used chems in the First Gulf War.

Remember the Checz monitors going off?

Remember Gulf War Syndrome?

Remember how Powell,Schratzkopf and Cheny have been such wonderfull advocates for their sick soldiers?

But, not to worry!

All the above creeps will be safe in their bunkers when the retalitory stuff hits our homeland!

[TheLooseThread]

"...in the event of the Iraqi regime facing defeat in a war, the officers are free to use their own initiative and unleash chemical weapons."

What officer would be so stupid? If your losing the war that means, um, that the enemy is winning. If you use chemical weapons on the winners they are going to hold you responsible.

[Lion's Cub]

I wonder who he plans to execute today for this?

You gotta love this psychological warfare. His commanders will be wondering what else we have :)

[Paul Ross]

I worry more about the WMD Saddam has already hidden in the USA, with directins to the caches to be given to terrorist sleepers in the event of his overthrow.

Agreed. Our troops can be prepared for this contingency. Can Manhattan?

[Paul Ross]

Does Iraq have a Navy?

I was wondering the same thing.

[blackie]

Snuff Saddam, NOW !!

Death To all Tyrant's !!

The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!

Molon Labe !!

[vannrox]

[ffrancone]

Sounds like disinformation to me. Designed to scare the US and weak allies off of invading. Is it likely that local commanders have WMD and the authority to use them without codes from Baghdad? With that paranoid in office?

Plus, you gotta figure the head of the Iraqi navy is a very important man. Three dinghys and a rowboat. What is he doing ordering the ground pounders around.

This one seems fishy.

[PoorMuttly]

He knows his chemicals won't kill our troops...but mostly his citizens, who he will enjoy leaving behind dead, and blaming us. He relies on his brothers in surrounding countries to take his revenge.

However, if we DO announce that chem/bio is a nuke in our eyes, and the only way to protect the world from it IS a nuke...

As for what's already in other countries...including here...I guess getting it over with and building from the rubble is best, rather than dying the Death of a Thousand Cuts, slowly...whenever they want to open a drum. We just can't afford to let people run around with this stuff, thinking they can get away with it. They must be made to know they are now international criminals, and will die along with their families and countries. They won't fear us if they don't fear us. It's a good day to start. They did and are treading on us all...so now we slither away...waiting for more...or bite, hard and brutally. If their countries are so unfortunate as to endure such criminality, and the world community so spineless and corrupt as to be their handmaidens...I guess those citizens....as were ours on 9-11...are marked for death. Can we really let tons of poisons spill out into our planet's atmosphere...because of political foolishness and worse....or do we INCINERATE the entire place the instant we detect poison? Better it burns on THEIR land, than anyone else's. Then it's just an international criminal matter. NO other country will ever dare to pull this shameful criminality again...if we remove a lot of those who do. As for our Euro friends...their disgraceful squabbles have cost us enough innocent blood to earn them our backs forever. Time to be a superpower, and clean house without permission. Daddy's home.

When you smoke out a snake...it wants to bite, and fight. Do we really want to wait for them, these criminals...to show us mercy? What's our option....a return to the 7th. century? Did we come here, and endure all this...for that? What deal are we being offered, other than enslavement or death? These people are idiots, now globally-dangerous and bloody idiots...and only death will prevent them. I hope their children survive. Their parents are excrement, and will be flushed, necessarily. It is the only way...and we didn't choose it. They lose.

Probably the main reason England is marginally with us again is that they are an island. Europe is still full of superior wisdom, isn't it. I keep reminding foreign people why we ignite explosives on the 4th. of July....we have had it with their ideas, failures, presence among us. It's a warning to them all. Don't pull your crap here.

[bonesmccoy]

what are checz monitors and do you have any info on use of chemical weapons in 1991? I thought it definitely did not occur. Hasn't General Schwarzkopf testified so?

[bonesmccoy]

me too!

[Betty Jo]

"CZECH" monitors.

Why would I believe Swartzkopf?

I'm going to go google for some url's on chems used in Gulf 1.

There was a huge body of evidence divulged after the war ended.

It's all wrapped up in the Gulf Syndrome fiasco.

[Betty Jo]

http://mediafilter.org/caq/Caq53.gws.html

Here's an article to use as a start.

[Travis McGee]

Look what 5 grams of anthrax did last October, and imagine 100 kilos.