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..."Whatever the true story, though, we continue to believe the Bush and Coalition allies had no choice but to invade, given the assessment that Saddam was a real threat. And make no mistake: He was. Anyway, he got what he deserved. But America needs to heed the underlying message: Dictators won't respond to threats they don't take seriously. Had the US record reflected greater toughness, the war itself might have been averted."

BAGHDAD, Nov. 18, 2005 – After receiving a tip from a local resident, soldiers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, uncovered what turned out to be a large weapons cache west of Baghdad. The unit initially found a small cache consisting of two rocket-propelled grenades and an AK-47 assault rifle Nov. 14. But after uncovering this weapons cache, the soldiers of 1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment, expanded the search of the area, resulting in one of the largest of 17 weapons cache discoveries the team has made to date. After receiving the informant's tip, the soldiers started their...

      The top policy adviser to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says the Bush administration erred by building its public case for war against Saddam Hussein mainly on the claim that he possessed banned weapons. The comment by Douglas J. Feith, in an interview with The Associated Press, is a rare admission of error about Iraq by a senior administration official. Feith, who is leaving after four years as the undersecretary of defense for policy, said he remains convinced that President Bush was correct in deciding that war against Iraq was necessary.       "I don't think...

TheKansasCityChannel.com Local Man Charged With Possession Of Chemical Weapon Chemist Is Former U.S. Army Employee POSTED: 4:19 p.m. CDT May 16, 2003 UPDATED: 5:22 p.m. CDT May 16, 2003 An Independence man has been charged with possessing a chemical weapon, but prosecutors won't say what he allegedly may have planned to do with the potassium cyanide. The chemical was discovered in his apartment in February, authorities said. A federal grand jury in Kansas City indicted Hessam Ghane, 53. He's a naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran who holds a doctorate in chemistry, KMBC's Peggy Breit reported. The indictment was unsealed Friday,...

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a380199044cff.htm Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. 'USFK Setting Up Germ Detection Equipment' Korea Times October 4, 1999, Monday The U.S. forces stationed in Korea has begun to set up germ detection equipment in major military bases like Pyongtaek, for instance, in preprations for possible bacteriological and chemical attacks from North Korea. The USFK has been installing anti-germ warfare facilities called potal shield' beginning this May against possible North Korean offensives using bio-weapons,'' said Rep. Kim Deok of the opposition Grand National Party (GNP). During an National Assembly inspection...

Source: U.S. To Declare Iraq in Violation Add White House - AP to My Yahoo! By GEORGE GEDDA, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will formally declare Iraq has violated a U.N. resolution on disarmament, setting the United States on a course toward possible war with Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) early next year, senior officials said Thursday. AP Photo The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said President Bush (news - web sites)'s decision is not an immediate trigger for war but the beginning of an intense diplomatic campaign to convince allies that Saddam has violated...

Iraqi Report Could Prove Damaging to Germany   Volatile information - the weighty Iraqi report on its weapons program   Iraq’s declaration of its weapons programs contains explosive news for Germany, a Berlin paper has reported. The dossier is said to detail covert arms deals between German defense firms and Iraq. Just as the heated debates within the German government over the role of German troops and equipment in a possible war against Iraq seem to be cooling down, another potential bombshell threatens to reignite the fires. On Tuesday, the Berlin-based left-wing paper, Tageszeitung reported that aspects of the 12,000-page Iraqi...

As speculation grows that the US plans to take action against Saddam Hussein, Terry Taylor, a retired British colonel who became a UN weapons inspector, recalls searching for Iraq's biological weapons. "We were trying to discover all the sites which had equipment which could be used to support a biological weapons programme, everything from dairy factories upwards. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack. I was employed mostly on surprise inspections, ones that were rather challenging, ones that perhaps merited a UN commissioner being the chief inspector. This made the Iraqis pay a bit more attention even...

EU countries will not consider military attack against Iraq until they see proof that Baghdad is producing weapons of mass destruction, Italian Defence Minister Antonio Martino said on Tuesday. The Russian foreign ministry, meanwhile, said Moscow had not yet been consulted by Washington on any specific US plan to unseat the Iraqi regime as Iraq said the US could not remove President Saddam Hussein from power. Also Tuesday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri accused Hans Blix, the chief UN arms inspector for Iraq, of having blocked, at Washington's behest, last week's talks with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in Vienna....

A former United Nations official who worked in Iraq says he does not believe it possesses weapons of mass destruction. The official, Denis Halliday, was the UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Iraq in 1997-98. Mr Halliday said he thought a US attack on Iraq was likely later this year, and people there were deeply concerned. Any attack could mean appalling losses of Iraqi civilians and US troops. Mr Halliday worked for the UN for 34 years, and was an assistant secretary-general when he was sent to Baghdad. But he resigned from the UN to have the freedom to criticise the international...

Receive FREE updates by email: The Truth About North KoreaBy Reed Irvine and Cliff KincaidApril 2, 2002 A recent Gallup Poll found that while Americans generally have a negative opinion of North Korea, these attitudes were less negative than views of Iran and Iraq – the other two "axis of evil" countries identified by President Bush in his State of the Union Address. Gallup said that, to some degree, this was because "Americans know less about North Korea than the other two countries." Dr. Norbert Vollertsen is trying to change that. He is the German doctor who spent 18...