[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!

[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.

[KSApplePie_two]

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

[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.

[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.

[Mitchell]

There's something I don't understand about reports like this, and also about the reports regarding Iraq trying to purchase the metal tubing required for a nuclear weapon. Why wouldn't Iraq have built the required infrastructure to make such things themselves? Doesn't Iraq have chemical manufacturing factories and metal machining facilities? Wouldn't these be a high priority for any country, whether aiming at a peacetime economy or a wartime economy?

[Scully]

Info ping!

[Colonel Jim]

Good Lord! He is going to use nerve agents, swell!

[river rat]

QUICK!
Someone call Scott Ritter and ask HIM what he thinks this means....
Semper Fi

[HiTech RedNeck]

atropine and obidoxime are antidotes for organophosphate insecticide poisonings. however when we said we would raid iraq, i don't think we meant spray it with.