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Originally Posted by diver
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The fact that thousands of Kurds were killed in Chemical weapons attacks not enough evidence for you?
Did he have Nukes, no.
WMDs, certainly.
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Gas or other chemicals are not WMDs
you need a hell of a lot of gas and very large deployment systems before you can achieve the kind of "mass destruction" you get from WMDs.
Whilst chlorine may not be the most potent of chemicals, many hundreds of tonnes where used in WW2 with only limited effect. To cause mass destruction you would need to release 100s of tonnes quickly in a populated area; impossible with any standard delivery system. Kurdish villages is one thing, mass destruction is another.
Biological and nuclear weapons are the only weapons capable of mass destruction with a single use.
Prahaps a mute point tho.
*edit* I'm not trying to make any political point.