The Left's "Ministry of Truth" has rewritten its own history yet again (a major occupation of the Left, considering its history this century).

Now, "everybody knows" that there were no weapons of mass destruction stored in arsenals, that only Bush and his cronies believed there were such weapons (and were probably lying about it anyway), and that the war would be a cakewalk over a poor, bedraggled army.

Things like this are an important reminder of what the anti-war groups were really saying.

All the following options are possible, and most will probably be used if the regime survives the initial onslaught and is cornered.

• Selective use of chemical and biological weapons, which will force US troops to fight in cumbersome protection suits.

• Destruction of oil fields, firing oil wells and possibly using radiological or chemical missiles to pollute the sites.

• Paramilitary attacks on Kuwaiti and Saudi oil fields, pipelines and facilities and possibly transit routes such as the Suez Canal.

• Paramilitary attacks on civilian centres in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and other Gulf states.

• Paramilitary attacks on targets in the US, UK and other Coalition countries (some health professionals in the UK and US are to be vaccinated against smallpox in anticipation of such action).

• In extreme circumstances where the regime faces its own termination, more substantial use of chemical and biological weapons including targeting of US bases in north Iraq, Qatar and Kuwait, and perhaps Israel, in the latter case instigating nuclear counterstrikes. Ariel Sharon has already expressed his readiness to retaliate and the UK has not ruled it out:‘In the right conditions we would be willing to use our nuclear weapons,’ defence minister Geoff Hoon said in March 2002.

Aside from being wrong about almost everything, it is interesting to note the assumption that Iraq was well-armed with WMD, an assumption almost everyone made back then, although damn few will admit to that now.

I don't remember any antiwar people standing up before the war started, saying "well, I don't believe that chemical and nuclear weapons are a concern for our troops, since we are certain Saddam doesn't have any."

I also remember that Saddam's troops were well-equipped for chemical warfare. One wonders why, since it is open knowledge that we do not deploy such weapons.