Iraq Said to Try to Buy Antidote Against Nerve Gas

The New York Times ^ | 11/12/2002 | JUDITH MILLER

[luv2ndamend]

"The Iraqis must know that we are not going to use such agents against them, because we don't have chemical weapons," Dr. Franz said.

No...He is going to use them!

[tet68]

. "The Iraqis must know that we are not going to use such agents against them, because we don't have chemical weapons," Dr. Franz said.

Excuse me Doc, but you just don't seem to get the point.
They want this because they are going to use such agents against US.

Doh!

[dennisw]

One word:
Blowback.

[Mixer]

...and here I thought that Iraq was going to comply with the new resolutions.

/end sarcasm

[demlosers]

What? Saddam troops don't have any P-tablets, or atropine, 2- pam chloride, auto-injectors? Hehehehe.

Let the twithing begin. LOL!

[demlosers]

twitching = twithing

[luv2ndamend]

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The Iraqis better be working hard on an antidote for nuclear bunker busters and daisycutters, too.

[Madcelt]

This does not bode well. I hope for Sadhams sake he isn't that stupid.

[Madcelt]

I hope for Sadhams sake he isn't that stupid.

This statement was ludicrous upon my part. I forgot to whom I was referring!

[KSApplePie_two]

Chess I tell ya!!!
It is all a game of chess. The media are the pawns.

[Dallas]

This is very troubling...indeed.

I presume the Republican Guard are the ones he's concerned about. All the others are just cannon-fodder.

[Unmarked Package]

A monster like Saddam would never waste the atropine injectors on his civilian populace. So, who said the atropine injectors sold to Saddam actually contain atropine? (heh heh)

[concerned about politics]

If he even tries to use chemical weapons on UK and US military personal, he WILL go down in a blaze of glory. A really BIG blaze. Bagdad will become a childs myth.

[Husker24]

It seems amazing to me that the dumbass doesnt already have the antidote, if your going to have nerve gas youd think that you might want to have the antidote around just incase the wind changes.

[sam_paine]

Officials said hospitals and clinics around the world commonly stocked atropine to resuscitate patients who have had heart attacks. As a result, atropine was not included on a list of thousands of "dual use" items...

A million doses of atropine could be for resuscitating everyone that has a heart attack when the ground starts trembling from the B52's.

[concerned about politics]

And to think the lame duck Democrats still haven't givin the President a homeland security measure. They still want the union vote ahead of the lives of American citizens. Pretty pathetic.

[kinghorse]

How hard is it for the government to have a little plan that advises people that in the event of emergency, vacination centers would be be set up at normal polling stations and schools and stadia. Why can't local dovetail with Federal and advise this? Why I suppose because they don't want to frighten people. But there might be something that would assuage people. Like Hart says, we are ill prepared.

[kinghorse]

How hard is it for the government to have a little plan that advises people that in the event of emergency, vacination centers would be be set up at normal polling stations and schools and stadia. Why can't local dovetail with Federal and advise this? Why I suppose because they don't want to frighten people. But there might be something that would assuage people. Like Hart says, we are ill prepared.