One might even say the last time the US government used chemical weapons was
against its own people under the, yes once again, Clinton administration.
Can you spell Waco.

Denys

-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
Wirt Atmar
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 3:56 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT: A powerful argument for war with Iraq

John writes:

>  Wirt wrote:
>  >he has no active WMD programs
>
>  Please, Wirt, hurry to the UN and share with them your intelligence
reports!
>  Clearly the intelligence services of the western countries have been
lying
>  to their employers!  It's up to you and your personal intelligence agency
to
>  set them straight!

Essentially the only weapon of mass destruction is a nuclear weapon. The
threat from chemical and biological weapons are being greatly exaggerated in
the news media -- and that alone is the fundamental reason that the United
States doesn't employ them. They're ineffective as battlefield weapons and
are generally more dangerous to the using organization than they are to the
intended target.

The total accumulated world-wide deaths from the use of biological weapons
doesn't rise to the number of dead the US suffers in one day from
automobilie
accidents, and the total chemical weapons world-wide death count from 1911
to
2003 only equals a few years worth of US auto accidents.

But in stark contrast, there were dozens of days during World War II when
the
death toll from conventional incendiary devices exceeded the current US
yearly automotive death toll, 30,000 or more burned to death in a single
night, with the Dresden and Toyko firebombings death counts exceeding even
the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear weapon tolls.

WMD's aren't what you think they are if you listen to the news nowadays.

Wirt Atmar

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