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        now t~i~y ~O'Ji'd t~&~.- deliv~ `:d ;~h~I ~ checal weJf)ot:. -  Ģi~hL-U ~~`~~ ~~ by air,
and we al]  ):no-~ w~at happened to the air.  So we ~?nt after their ~rtille~v big tinc.
T think we were f)robahly highly,  higI)ly etfective In going ~ft~r t1~cir ~rtillery.

       There are other people ~ho are speculatin9 that the reason w)y they didn't Use
chemical weapons is because they were afraid if they used chemical weapon3 there
would be nuclear retaliation.

       There are other people that speculate that they didn't use their chemical
weapons because their chemical weapons deyraded,   and because of the damage that we
clid 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,  amon9 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 6od they
didn't.

       Q:  Are you still bombing in northern Iraq?    If you are,        what'~ the Purpose of
it now?
       A:  Yes.

       Q:  What's beina achieved now?
       A:  ?4ilitary purposes that we...   E~actly the same things we were trying to
achieve before.   The war is not over,  and you've got to remember, people are still
dyin9 out there.   Those people that are dying are my troops,          and I'm going to
continue to protCct 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 other
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 goin9 to try and brin9 to ~ustice the people responsible for the
atrocities in Kuwait City?   And also, could you co:rjr~ent on the friendly fire incident
in which nine British were killed?
       A:  I'm sorry, that was asked earlier and I failed to cio that.         First of all,
on the first question, we have as much information as possible on those people that
were contrdttiny the atrocities,  and of course, we're going through a-- screening
process.   Whenever we find those people that did,   in fact,        corp~mit those atrocities,
we try and separate them out.    We treat them no differently than any other prisoner
of war,  but the ultinate disposition of those people,   of course, r:~~ght b~ quite
different than the way we would treat any other prisoner of war.

       With re9ard to the unfortunate incident yesterday,   the only report we have is
that two A~lO aircraft carne 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 it,  I'm not going to apolo~ize for it.          I am going to
say that our experience has been that based upon the extremely complicated n~m?'er of
different maneuvers that were being accomplished out here,           according to the e~tre..~
diversity of the number of forces that were out here,    according to the extreme
     ~~~n~~5 in the languages of the forces ~ut here,   and the weather conditions and
everythin~ else,  I feel that we were quite lucky that we did not have more of this
type. of incid~nt   I would also tell you that because we had a fe           earlier that you

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