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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (503212)	12/3/2003 9:30:30 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You wrote:<font color=blue>"There is nothing "strange" about Saddam's behavior during the invasion -- his armed forces were not even third-rate."<font color=black> Yeh, sure. He could have made it a lot more difficult and bloody for our troops, in the hopes of turning us back. His behavior has always been strange. His military was not even third rate compared to America's military, but they sure were the powerhouse in the Middle East. You wrote:<font color=blue>"And his chemical and biological weapons... well, we will keep looking for them (wink! wink!)"<font color=black> Experts: Iraq has tons of chemical weapons "U.N. weapons experts have said Iraq may have stockpiled more than 600 metric tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, VX and sarin. Some 25,000 rockets and 15,000 artillery shells with chemical agents are also unaccounted for, the experts said." cnn.com Also from the article: "Iraq told the United Nations in 1995 it had produced 30,000 liters of biological agents, including anthrax and other toxins it could put on missiles. U.N. officials say the actual amount may be three or four times greater."