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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edscharp who wrote (14783)	4/21/2003 9:44:05 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

, that those chemical suits are utterly unnecessary for use against riot control gases That's only the opinion of an armchair warrier who is not being sprayed with riot gas by a bunch of angry marines who are trying to outdo each other on body count. One of the marines what quoted after their unit shot into the crowds at Mosul,"Marines aren't good at subtlety". The Iraqis had as much reason to think they would be subject to nerve agents as did the Americans. TP

To: Edscharp who wrote (14783)	4/21/2003 10:06:20 AM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 21614

The general, who worked in the chemical weapons section of the Iraqi military for more than 30 years and asked not to be identified, insisted that gas masks, anti-contamination suits and atropine injectors had been intended to protect Iraqis rather than for offensive use. "We do not have any kind of forbidden weapons," he said. Describing the use of chemical weapons by Iraq against Iran in the 1980s as "abnormal", he said the country had possessed weapons of mass destruction as a deterrent against its neighbours. "If I have nerve gas and I know the Americans have a better version, it would be stupid of me to use it against them," he said. "The concept of having this kind of weapon was just to try to protect ourselves against others who had them, like the Israelis and the Iranians." guardian.co.uk