[alnick]

Despite the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" moniker it's unlikely that Iraq using Chemical weapons would have killed many coalition soldiers or slowed down the fall of Baghdad by much.

Simply not that great if you have trouble delivering them effectively, and you're delivering them against troops trained in chemical warfare and with plenty of protective suits.

That makes sense. It explains why the regime would have destroyed them right before the war rather than try to use them against us.

Still though, I got very nervous whenever an air raid siren would go off in Kuwait.

[Credo]

Most of the finds so far have been dismissed as "pesticides" or "agricultural use only". How big of an agriculture industry did Iraq have? Why were these "pesticides" found with military equipment?

I think that Centcom & the administration are keeping a lid on it until it's all found and accounted for. WMD is not the prime reason for taking Hussein out; terrorism is. WMD just makes it a more deadly brew. I think there's something to the stories that Blair kept the brakes on Bush going after Iraq immediately after 9/11. The UN circus enabled our force build up. We went when we were ready with or without the UN.