We also believed, but with less certainty, that Saddam had stocked at least 100 metric tons of agent.
If you really want to have an honest discussion about President Obama's Syrian policy, perhaps you'll mention that he helped broker a diplomatic deal that destroyed 67,098 metric tons of chemical agents.
Saddam probably has stocked a few hundred metric tons of CW agents.
Iraq, Mr. Bush said, had "a massive stockpile of biological weapons" and "thousands of tons of chemical agents" and was "reconstituting its nuclear weapons program".
We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, Sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas.
"Iraq admitted producing 6,500 chemical bombs containing an estimated 1,000 tons of chemical agents, none of which have ever been accounted for".
The agency estimates that Iraq has several hundred metric tons of chemical agents that it could put in bombs, artillery shells and missile warheads.
He produced tons of deadly agents, like the microbe anthrax, which, when inhaled, causes fever, cough, vomiting, chills, shock and coma, usually ending in death.
The secretary of state John Kerry said on Tuesday that Syria possessed 1,000 tons of chemical agents, most of it in the form of unmixed binary components stored in tanks.
On the other hand, no actual biological agents have been detected in the suspect vehicles.Scud in a haystackWhat of the thousands of bombs and warheads and tons of deadly agents that Mr Hussein was allegedly hiding?
