What happned to Saddam-Iraq's WMD that they have used on Kurds & on Iran?

I thought since we were going to irrelevant times we may want to justify Iraq War #2 on these grounds as well (and then blame Clinton):

A good example of early chemical warfare was the late Stone Age (10 000 BC) hunter-gatherer societies in Southern Africa, known as the San. They used poisoned arrows, tipping the wood, bone and stone tips of their arrows with poisons obtained from their natural environment. These poisons were mainly derived from scorpion or snake venom, but it is believed that some poisonous plants were also utilized. The arrow was fired into the target of choice, usually an antelope (the favourite being an eland), with the hunter then tracking the doomed animal until the poison caused its collapse.

 

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I'd heard of that. What was the reasoning (if any) behind it? What gas did they use?

 

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They liked to use mustard gas (a WWI favorite) to put down riots and force the collection of taxes. Basically they would come in with a plane drop the gas bombs on villages of pretty primitive Arabs and Kurds, who would have had absolutely no way in the World of defending themselves. Ruin the village and scare the crap out of neighboring villages.

That usually sorted things out in the British favor. Actually, Saddam acted pretty much the same way – really the exact same when you think about it.

Michael

 

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