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US warns Iraq America warned Saddam Hussein it would retaliate with a nuclear attack if Iraq used weapons of mass destruction. The White House said it would "respond with overwhelming force" including "all options" if the US, its troops or its allies were struck by biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear arms. A six-page White House policy blueprint entitled the National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction said the options include a "conventional and nuclear response". Officials said the report, which is to be presented to Congress, is intended as a warning to Saddam. "The language speaks for itself, and I think it does apply to any state that would use weapons of mass destruction against us," a senior Bush Administration official said. President George Bush's father sent a similar warning to Saddam in January 1991, on the eve of the Gulf War. The older Mr Bush told the Iraqi leader in a letter that he would pay a "terrible price" if he used chemical or biological weapons. The new report states: "The United States will continue to make clear that it reserves the right to respond with overwhelming force - including through resort to all of our options - to the use of weapons of mass destruction against the United States, our forces abroad, and friends and allies." It added: "We will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes and terrorists to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons." America is also preparing to use land mines in a war with Iraq, despite US policy that calls for a ban on mines everywhere in the world except Korea by next year. The US has stockpiled anti-personnel land mines at its military bases in countries ringing Iraq, according to Pentagon records. Some of the mines are stored on Diego Garcia, a British-owned island in the Indian Ocean where US forces have a base. Up to 20,000 people are killed or maimed worldwide each year by land mines, according to the United Nations. Of those, 80 per cent are civilians and one-third are children. But a Pentagon spokesman told USA Today the mines play a "vital and essential role" in battle by restricting where the enemy can move and protecting American troops. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, a prominent critic of land mines, said their use in Iraq would be a "terrible mistake". "They are outmoded, indiscriminate weapons that have been banned by every other Nato member except Turkey, and they should be banned by the United States," he told USA Today. "We have other far more effective and precise weapons to do the job." ©AAP 2002 <A HREF="">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om |
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