From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Tue Sep 07 1999 - 09:57:42 MDT
From: Rik van Riel <riel@humbolt.geo.uu.nl>
>>On Sun, 5 Sep 1999 ronkean@juno.com wrote:
>> My guess is that the reason Iraq did not use chemical weapons in
>> the 1991 Gulf War was that Saddam Hussein was worried about the
>> response that might bring.
>Tareq Aziz (sp?) told the real reason in an interview on
>CNN some time ago.
>Saddam wanted to use chemical and biological weapons, but
>the (more sensible) generals and ministers (including mr.
>Aziz himself) adviced against it because
> "it would not be wise"
Propaganda...
The Iraqi's were told in no uncertain terms that a B/C attack would
bring a N (nuclear) response....
Period.
Brian
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