Re: Close Orbit Support (COS) a.k.a. CSS (Close Space Support)

Eric Foley wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Z. Lakel" <zlakel@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 1:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Close Orbit Support (COS) a.k.a. CSS (Close Space
Support)
>
> > > Iraq had large stockpiles of chemical weapons and did
> > > not use them either.
>
> > Concerning Iraq,
> > were they really threatoned with ceasing to exist by the U.S.?  I
mean,
> it's
> > the same government in power now as it was then.
>
> Yes, they were threatened with ceasing to exist by the U.S., under a
> particular circumstance.  Namely, Bush Sr. made it extremely clear to
Saddam
> Hussein that if he used his weapons of mass destruction against us in
the
> Gulf War, we just might decide to use ours in response.  (Or, to put
it
> another way, "Go ahead... make my day.")  Given that they didn't, I'd
say it
> was probably a pretty effective deterrent.

I thought it was the brits that said that they would respond to any
weapon of
mass destruction with their own weapons of mass destruction, but
lamented that
all they had were nuclear weapons, no chems, no bios.