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    There's other people who are speculating that the reason they didn't use
chemical weapons is because they were afraid if they used chemical weapons
there would be nuclear retaliation.  There are other people that speculate that
they  didn't use their chemical    weapons  because their   chemical  weapons
degraded, and because of the damage that we did to their chemical production
facilities, they were unable to upgrade the chemicals within their weapons as a
result of that degradation.  That was one of the reasons, among others, that we
went after their chemical production facilities early on in the strategic campaign.
    I'll never know the answer to that question, but as I say, thank God they
didn't.

    Q: General, are you still bombing in northern Iraq, and if you are, what's
the purpose of it now?
    A: Yes.

    Q: What `5 being achieved now?
    A: Military purposes that we--exactly the same things we were trying to
achieve before. The war is not over, and you've got to remember, people are
still dying out there. Okay? And those people that are dying are my troops, and
I'm going to continue to protect those troops in every way I possibly can until
the war is over.

    Q. How soon after you `ve finally beaten the Republican Guards and the
other forces that threaten you, will you move your forces out of Ira q, either into
Kuwait or back into Saudi?
    A: That's not my decision to make.

    Q. What 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 Britons were killed?
    A: I'm sorry, that was asked earlier and I failed to do that.
    First of all, on the first question, we have as much information as possible
on those people that were committing the atrocities, and, of course, we're going
through a screening process, and whenever we find those people that did, in
fact, commit those atrocities, we try and separate them out.  We treat them no
differently than any other prisoner of war, but the ultimate 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 yesterday, the only report we have
is that two A-10 aircraft came in, and they attacked two scout cars, British ar-
mored cars, and that's what caused the casualties. There were nine KIA [killed
in action]. We deeply regret that.   There's no excuse for it. I'm not going to
apologize for it. I am going to say that our experience has been that based upon
the extremely complicated number of different maneuvers that were being ac-
complished out here, according to the extreme diversity of the number of forces
that were out here, according to the extreme differences in the languages of the