Why didn't Saddam use WMD's on US / UK Troops

If Saddam's army had wmd's, why do you think they didn't use them.

The marines, yesterday, instructed their field troops that is was ok for the marines to disgard their chem suits.

I have to assume the marines were 101% comfortable that Saddam wouldn't use chem weapons before they would issue such an instruction to the field troops.

 

[PatPatriot]

Bad public relations, if he used them he would lose comfort and support from the pablum puking appeasers.

Command and control was cut off.

Smart generals, that wouldn't follow orders.

 

[codeworks]

so he can prolong this invasion

 

Code:

How could his not using wmd's prolong the invasion?

Your comment doesn't make sense.

 

[KMAN]

I don't think anybody could figure out why Saddam does what he does. However here are my possible reasons. Saddam is dead or out of commission and the other officers didn't have the balls to do anything without Saddam's approval or, Saddam is trying to win the media battle and keep the Arab/Middle East against the US.

KMAN

 

Patriot:

Bad PR?

Saddam is dead meat one way or another.

If he's captured, he'll be tried & convicted of war crimes ( past or present), and executed.
That is a done deal.

He'll never leave Baghdad alive. So, he and his top cronies / generals have nothing to lose by using wmd's.

Real question is this; If he really had wmd's why didn't he use em?.

 

[radiofreecostarica]

Occam's Razor: The easiest of all possible explanations is most often the true explanation.

I love this: The same men that accuse saddam of throwing babies from incubators now say that he won't bomb an invading army because of "bad publicity".

A war-hawk's wet dream: Actually FINDING WMD and Saddam.
both will most likely never happen.

 

[PatPatriot]

Joey... see answer 3, this is a real possibility.

 

[radiofreecostarica]

answer 3?

 

[codeworks]

Joey C

I meant if he uses them the USA will level the place and step up the war with just cause. He can only prolong this and hope for Arabs to rally to his defence.

 

[grantt]

Bush is the only one cold enough to bomb civilian targets. Just look at his familly history. This twit stick, his dad and Jed execute retarded people for christ sakes. Most countries have a law against this but not Texas.

 

F ukcing hillbillies that got lucky

 

ohh ohhh!!! they found wmd's now what is there to be anti-american about????

predictably -- civilian deaths, friendly fire, new iraqi gov't, oil, something without merit --like the wmd's don't exist argument.

first Iraq, then France

 

the whole war is about whether saddam has wmd`s....if he uses them,game over..the u.s. will be vindicated..it`s that simple...he has the whole muslim world and a good portion of the rest of the world on his side(the side of a monster-amazing....yeah,i know,bush is the monster

)....it is suspected a good portion of his mobile stash has been moved to syria prior to the war....so,it`s gonna come down to whether or not the coalition can find any of his scientists alive....if i was hussein,i`d have whacked every scientist that worked on wmd`s.....we`ll see....

 

[BigTomma]

Grantt, hopefully when you and your heavy fu(gged)up band members come off your acid trip,you will step into reality.Maybe it would take for your 7 year old sister to be raped,stabbed,dismemberd by a so called retard to understand the laws of texas,how about a relitive who has a job(i know that seems far fetched for your family tree) as a prison guard that was killed.Only country iv'e heard of that have no laws like this is IRAQ.I'm not a geography major but i still think Texas is a STATE!!!!!!!! and Joey C you just sound like a David Koresh,or another Tim McVeigh...why don't you leave Vegas head to Irag and try to launch shit yourself!!!!!!

"That's why they call it gambling"

 

[BigTomma]

g=q

"That's why they call it gambling"

 

tomma

don't get so upset, that is joey and grantt's game -- try to antagonize with moronic anecdotes. they have no knowledge, wisdom, or common sense. i really don't think they even believe what they are saying.
nonetheless, it'll will all be over soon and it looks to be their worst nightmare -- america will be successful in this war -- it looks like the head of the snake has been cut off!!!

so now the anti-americans can go back to their soap operas and scooby doo reruns!

sphincter

this war is much, much deeper than finding wmds -- we are liberating a nation; we are severely hindering the progress of terrorrism, we are simply saving the 20 billion a year it cost to just contain hussein, and much more!

first Iraq, then France

 

hansen....i agree....but,if we come up totally empty,the propaganda machine will be on us like crabs on a skeezer....we have to find a link......although there is a host of reasons for removing saddam,the root cause for the invasion was the inspections,and the u.n`s reluctance to enforce their own resolutions.....17 times...therefore,allowing the america-haters to make the argument that there was no need to invade....that if there were no wmd`s,the inspections were all that were necessary.....

i believe that if there are scientists still drawing breath,we will be vindicated....it`s already beginning to look like france and russia were violating u.n. resolutions by supplying saddam well into the inspection process....we all have to be patient...

but, we are basically in agreement

 

this is what i`m talkin` about......


neAR NAJAF, Iraq (AFP) - A facility near Baghdad that a US officer had said might finally be "smoking gun" evidence of Iraqi chemical weapons production turned out to contain pesticide, not sarin gas as feared.



A military intelligence officer for the US 101st Airborne Division's aviation brigade, Captain Adam Mastrianni, told AFP that comprehensive tests determined the presence of the pesticide compounds.


Initial tests had reportedly detected traces of sarin -- a powerful toxin that quickly affects the nervous system -- after US soldiers guarding the facility near Hindiyah, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Baghdad, fell ill.


Mastrianni said: "They thought it was a nerve agent. That's what it tested. But it is pesticide."


He said a "theatre-level chemical testing team" made up of biologists and chemists had finally disproved the preliminary field tests results and established that pesticide was the substance involved.


Mastrianni added that sick soldiers, who had become nauseous, dizzy and developed skin blotches, had all recovered.


The turnaround was an embarrassment for the US forces in the region, which had been quick to say that they thought they had finally found the proof they have been actively looking for that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction.


A spokesman for the US army's 3rd Infantry Division, Major Ross Coffman, had told journalists at Baghdad's airport that the site "could be a smoking gun".


"We are talking about finding a site of possible weapons of mass destruction," he added.


The fact that the coalition forces have come up with no clear evidence of WMD after capturing much of Iraq in 19 days of fighting has raised questions over the war's justification.......................................................



that`s the kind of stuff we`ll be hearing if no wmd`s or testing facilities are uncovered...i still say the scientists will be the key.....i hope so...

 

one thing it does prove my friend -- the honesty of the reporting, to the dismay of many here.

first Iraq, then France