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"I also worried about the great empty area of southern Iraq where the Army would launch its attack. I kept asking myself, ‘What does Saddam know about that flank that I don’t? Why doesn’t he have any forces out there?’ The intelligence people suggested offhandedly, ‘Maybe he plans to pop a nuke out there.’ They then nicknamed the sector the ‘chemical killing sack.’ I’d flinch every time I heard it. I had a nightmare vision of Fred Franks and Gary Luck hitting that area only to have the Iraqis dumpmassive quantities of chemicals while the Republican Guard counterattacked and fought us to astalemate. I became increasingly jumpy.”

General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, 1991