[xzins]

I consider this a ridiculous option. It would be Saddam doing our work for us....the seige of Baghdad while ceding the rest of the nation to us.

Besides, don't they realize that chemical agent has an application life of a relatively short time.

I don't believe this report.

[RaceBannon]

Short effective time, but in a concentrated area, quite lethal, and if used in moderate amounts over a week's time, chem suits wear out, and not enough replacements to use 3 per troop in one month.

Rapid deployment of troops to prevent the wear out time means massive deployment of chem/bio weapons in first wave, many innocents dead.

Then, mines, times to go off days after war starts, troops advanced, in 'secure areas that were surrendered, then..BOOM, gas bomb or germ bomb goes off.

If I can think it, so can they, and probably already have. So are our troops thinking it.