Still, if this is BioWar (and it sure looks everything like that, as inept in the end as it may turn out to be) then a barrier has been breached that allows the U.S., at the discretion of our national command authority, to respond with weapons of mass destruction.
I doubt we do so, because we can defeat our opponents militarily without using WMD. However, some regimes are going to fall. I do not think the current governments of Syria or Iraq will survive this war. Nor, honestly, do I think that the governments of Libya, Sudan, Algeria or Iran stand a good chance of surviving. Iran may raise the most eyebrows. It's long past time we punished that country.
Yes indeed.
These attacks are hardly inept. They are clearly not intended to kill lots of people. Most likely, Saddam has tested the delivery mechanism quite thoroughly on political prisoners, and knows exactly what its limitations are. They are meant to send a message. You have to ask yourself the question, why this technique, and why now? It's as if you saw a known arab terrorist buying a plastic box-cutter at a Wal-Mart on 9/10. Why? It only makes sense in the context of the whole plan. What's the plan?
Alternatively, you could just stick your head in the sand and hope it doesn't mean anything at all.