... over the centuries, it seems chemical warfare has been in use ever since fighting between people started. The first recorded evidence of chemical weapons was in 400bc, when Spartan Greeks used Sulphur fumes against enemy soldiers. Sulphur was not very efficient and rarely killed, but often disorientated ... The basic protection associated with military units includes measures for the unit to be able to evaluate the situation when sarin or other chemical weapons have been used, to detect and decontaminate as well as to rescue and provide care. The second category is mission specific prote...

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... strike first and decisively. In the cease-fire that ended the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq gave U.N. inspectors unlimited access to search for and destroy weapons of mass destruction and pledged full, final and complete disclosure of its arsenal. Iraq hindered more than it helped the effort, misleading inspectors and ... law, period. Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq for six years, asserts that 95% of Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons have been destroyed. On March 13, 2002, he wrote: "America claims that Iraq lied to inspectors and still has deadly stockpiles. But the Bus...

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... strike first and decisively. In the cease-fire that ended the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq gave U.N. inspectors unlimited access to search for and destroy weapons of mass destruction and pledged full, final and complete disclosure of its arsenal. Iraq hindered more than it helped the effort, misleading inspectors and ... law, period. Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq for six years, asserts that 95% of Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons have been destroyed. On March 13, 2002, he wrote: "America claims that Iraq lied to inspectors and still has deadly stockpiles. But the Bus...

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... slogan for a magazine puts it, "Their lives in your hands." The determination of the West to ensure that Saddam in particular doesn't acquire any weapons of mass destruction is not without reason. His history in power speaks for itself. One year after gaining power, he started a conflict with Iran; ... backfired on the American President even more, for why is he bent on pursuing an axis "member" that probably does not possess nuclear weapons in preference to one that does? The sudden attention paid by America to the current Iraqi situation oozes further hypocrisy, further emphasising t...

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... Iraqi regime was being deceitful and noncompliant. Secretary Powell showed satellite photos proving banned materials had been moved from a number of Iraqi weapons facilities. Some of the photos depicted munition bunkers containing active chemicals prior to the inspection team arriving. Powell suspected the Iraqi government ... Pictures were also shown of ballistic missile sites in which cargo trucks were monitored moving the ballistic missile components. Other pictures displayed biological weapons facilities and the denial of U-2 reconnaissance flights. The photographic evidence was stro...

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... can cause a wholesale death in the world. Perhaps the forgetful America had forgotten that her foster-child Israel has heaps of such lethal weapons. A team of U N inspectors was sent to Iraq to find out the so-called deadly weapons; but in spite of deep digging scrutiny they could find nothing of the sort. Now America resorted to another pretext. It declared Saddam a great ... ...

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... keen on vehemently opposing the US. Initially we were told that Iraq had to be disarmed after breaching UN resolutions for over a decade and possessing weapons of mass destruction. And that the United Nations could lose credibility and authority if it allowed Iraq to continually ignore its resolutions. For the past ... world that I strongly suspect it could set loose forces that we would deeply live to regret". The stated US motive - to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction - lacks credibility because of Washington's failure to deal with others on the same terms. US allies Israel, Paki...

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... and mad very easily. We didn't love one another, and committed universal sins! ("A Different Kind of War", U.S. News) Chemical Weapons Chemical weapons contain certain elements that change into a gas. It can be prevented using gas masks, vaccines or protective gear. Chemical ... just got sick over time and by then it was hard to tell what caused it. ("Chemical Weapons", Eui-Suk Kim).Biological Weapons Biological weapons contain bacteria, which can be modified to overrun human's immune system. Biological weapons are meant to kill people. They were used during W.W.I and W.W.II. It has been ...

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... ended in 1991, the United Nations resolved that the economic embargo on Iraq would be lifted if Iraq destroyed its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs within six months. Iraq refused to do so. So it made oil soar high in price. He made oil and gas prices ... missiles against Saudi Arabia and Israel. In 1995 Iraq admitted to having possession of brewing thousands of gallons of deadly germs and toxins and loading some of them in bombs, missile and rockets. The weapons included anthrax, botulinum toxin, Clostridium perfringens, a flesh-eating bacterium that causes gas gangren...

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... Illness" multiple diseases have been introduced such as Mad Cow Disease, AIDS, Ebola, etc. The Gulf War Illness is an extremely contagious and deadly disease that evolves from a germ warfare agent known as "mycoplasma fermentans". This agent contains a gene that is linked to the HIV virus. ... of babies born to veterans suffer from these complications. The biological warfare used to harm our troops is commonly used to develop biological weapons. These agents were shipped from the American Type Culture Collection. This is an organization that collects and distributes biological specimens...

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... sides saw themselves as victims. Neither side wanted to contemplate compromise in order to obtain peace. For decades the Middle East threatened to make the United States apart of it's deadly wars. Until 1993, when Israel and the Palestinians signed the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn, the bridge to make peace hadn't taken place. Now the briged Arab ... or regional peace. The amendment to the 1995 U.S. Nuclear Non- Proliferation Act triggered severe sanctions against any non-nuclear state that engages in nuclear testing. Indian's decision to test nuclear weapons was sha...

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... role in any NATO or UN peace-keeping operation. Iraq being a dominant threat to the west has always denied that it has weapons of mass destruction. The United States on the other hand insists that Iraq has weapons like deadly bio-agents and nuclear warheads that are capable of reaching North America. The US being a super power can single handedly take on Saddam ... any plans for Iraq or other nations, " but later on said that any decision made by the UN or the NATO would be accepted by Canada. There has been no weapons inspection in the past 4 years in Iraq hence its not possible to per...

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