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that's bow they would have delivered their chertiical weapons.   Either that or by air,
and we all know what happened to the air.  So we went after their artillery bi9 time.
I think we were probably highly1 highly effective in going after their artillery.

     There are other people who are speculating that the reason why they didn't U3C
chemical wea?ons is because they were afraid if they used chemical weapons there
would be nuclear retaliation

     There are other people that speculate that they didnt use their chemical
weaFons because their chemical weapons degraded  and because of the damage that we
did to their chemical production f~cilities, they were unable to upgrade the
cheraicals within their weapons as a result of that degradation.   That was one of the
reasons1 among others, that we went after their chemical production facilities early
on in the strategic campaign.

I'll never know the answer to that question1 but as I say,  thank God they

didn't.

      Q:  Are you still boinbing in northern Iraq?  If you are, what~a the purpose of
it now?

A:   Yes.

          Q:  What's being achieved now?
          A:  ?{ilitary purposes that we. -- Exactly the same things we were trying to
    achieve before   The war is not over, and you've got to reme~r1 people are still
)   dyin~ out there   Those people that are dying are my troops,  and i'zn qoing to
    continue to protect those troops~in every way I possibly can until the war is over.

     Q:   Row soon after you've finally beaten the Republican Guard and the otber
forces that threaten you, will you move your forces out of Iraq -- either into Kuwait
or back into Saudi?
     A:   That's not my decision to make.

      Q:   Are you going to try and bring to justice the people responsible for the
atrocities in Kuwait City?   And also, could you comment on the friendly fire incident
in which nine British were killed?
      A:   I'm sorry, that was asked earlier and I failed to do that- First of all,
on the first question1 we have as much information as possible on those people that
were conunitting the atrocities, and of course1 we're going through a screening
process.   Whenever we find those people that did, in fact, comrait those atrocities,
we try and separate them out.  We treat them no d~fferently than any other prisoner
of war, but the ultitt'ate disposition of those people, of course, might be quite
different than the way we would treat any other prisoner of war.

           With regard to the unfortunate incident yesterday1 the only report we have is
     that two A-lO aircraft came in and they attacked two scout cars, British armored
     cars, and that's what caused the casualties. There were nine KIA.   We deeply regret
     that.  There's no excuse for ~t1 I'm not going to apolo~ize for it.  I am going to
     s~y that our experience has been that based upon the extretnely complicated nwt~er of
     different znaneuvers that were being accompli~hed out here, according to the extreme
     diversity of the nuinber of forces that were out here, according to the extreme
)    ~~~~rt~~t~ in the languages of the forces out here, and the weather condition~ and
     everything else, r feel that we were quite lucky that we did not have more of this
     type of incident.  I would also tell you that because we had a few earlier that you

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