Free Republic

<p>WHEN MICHAEL LERNER volunteered to give blood and urine samples to medical researchers, he figured they'd only find a few chemicals in his body. After all, Lerner, the president and founder of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute in Marin County, has lived in Bolinas for 20 years, eaten a healthy diet and avoided exposure to industrial chemicals.</p>

THESE images of death are searing proof of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. The lifeless fathers, mothers and children were innocent victims of history’s deadliest ever chemical attack on civilians. They died gasping, in burning, unimaginable agony after Saddam unleashed his terror arsenal on his own people. Their faces — grotesquely distorted by the effects of toxins — tell a terrible tale.