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Mar 11, 2003, 8:23am

[View Quote] > Funny thing is also that USA is planning to use chemical weapons in the
> attack; the same weapons that are supposed to be a reason for an attack.
> Contravercial I would say.

> Drac

If I could stretch my money as far as this story stretches the truth I could
feed Iraq's hungry for a year. Did you research this before you started
spreading it? I researched it as soon as it was sent to me. It was US
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld answering a question with the statement
that, regrettably, US military confronted with armed civilians, or US
military finding themselves in situations where innocents are gathered
together with Iraqi combatants cannot legally use non-lethal things like
tear gas to disable (preferable over killing them I would say) but by
international law they can use deadly weapons instead. He finds that the
international law that says they can kill but not disable by using a
"bio-chemical weapon" of non-deadly tear gas (etc) puts them in a very bad
situation where innocents are concerned, or when US troops are also in
jeopardy and/or have cornered combatants combined with innocents.

The other day I looked everywhere I could look to find one shred of real
truth to this story, beyond the "truth" I have stated. I listened to the
audio, I went to C-Span, I went to the House Armed Services Committee
archives, I went to news services, but the only sources that said it as
"Pentagon Plans to Use Biochemical Weapons on Iraq" all stemmed to some site
called the Sunshine-Project. And even there the audio told me the same
thing...they regretted that they could kill but not temporarily disable if
the weapon was a gas instead of a bullet. Several sites had the same type of
headline but referred back to this same "Sunshine-Project". They are
attempting to confuse the reader with the term biochemical weapon. If you
got your information from somewhere else....I'd love to hear about it. Here
is the audio in question:

http://www.sunshine-project.org/publications/pr/support/gasiraq.mp3

I don't want war as much as you don't want war but there are enough
negatives to say about it without throwing in things that you don't make
very sure there is a fully truthful basis for. But seriously, if you find
more, please let me know. I mean fully documented and indisputable
information. It's was kind of difficult to cover everything, but I tried.

By the way, as I researched this I found out a bit about the history of
biochemical weapons. Pretty interesting stuff if you don't think about it in
human terms.

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