US Prepares to Use Toxic Gases in Iraq
'Mr Rumsfeld became the first senior figure on either side of the impending conflict to announce his wish to use chemical agents in a little-noticed comment to the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee on 5 February the same day as Colin Powell's presentation of intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to the UN.'

'A special working group of the Federation of American Scientists concluded last month that using even the mildest of these weapons to incapacitate people would kill 9 per cent of them. It added: "Chemical incapacitating weapons are as likely as bullets to cause death."'

US Prepares to Use Toxic Gases in Iraq
'Mr Rumsfeld became the first senior figure on either side of the impending conflict to announce his wish to use chemical agents in a little-noticed comment to the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee on 5 February the same day as Colin Powell's presentation of intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to the UN.'

'A special working group of the Federation of American Scientists concluded last month that using even the mildest of these weapons to incapacitate people would kill 9 per cent of them. It added: "Chemical incapacitating weapons are as likely as bullets to cause death."'