[Hemlock]

Dave Franz, a former director of the Army's bio-defense lab at Fort Detrick, Md., and Frederick R. Sidell, a chemical agents expert who worked at the Army Medical Institute of Chemical Defense, agreed that Iraq's orders raised concern because there were virtually no peaceful uses for that much atropine.

Well, you can get pretty stoned off atropine. It's an antispasmotic/muscle relaxant. Well, those assholes are gonna need some muscle relaxants after we drop our stinky load all over their pitiful excuse for a country!

Along with scopalomine and other alkaloids, atropine is found in both Jimson Weed and Belladona. Atropine was once widely used to treat asthma.

[rightwing2]

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.

As I predicted months ago, we are going to take lots of casualties from Saddam's CBR arsenal unless we give him "an out"--meaning, that we guarantee him amnesty and immunity from prosecution in return for his acceptance of permanent exile in the country of his choice. As Rummy has since stated, buy him a plane ticket. However, thus far the US has refused to give him the guarantees from prosecution that he would require before even considering taking us up on this offer. The Administration should act immediately to give him such guarantees as the surest and swiftest and least costly way in terms of men and material to achieve regime change in Iraq.

[aShepard]

"Vee half no weapons of mass destruction, so we reject you access to Presidential palaces. And if you step foot in our country, vee ville gas all of you, dead!"

[TheLion]

Coming from the New York Times, this sounds more like scare hype, designed to frighten the troops and give the anti-war troops some ammunition.