Oh, man, thank you!! I needed a laugh!!!
"Anthrax deaths turned attention toward Iraq" by Peter S. Canellos, Globe Staff | August 5, 2008
WASHINGTON - .... The significance of the anthrax attacks in shaping US policy in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has largely been forgotten. Enough time has passed since the frenzied days of October 2001 that unmasking the anthrax killer no longer seems to be of urgent importance.
Translation: cover-up concluded.
Were it not for the anthrax attacks, most people would have assumed that the United States faced just one enemy - the global terrorist network Al Qaeda - with a base in Afghanistan and Islamist allies in some other countries.
The anthrax attacks suggested something different: That Al Qaeda's strike on New York and Washington had emboldened numerous enemies of the United States to launch attacks of their own with various methods, some as stealthy as sending biological weapons through the mail.
When the anthrax attacks occurred, Iraq was immediately fingered by some experts and many neoconservative hawks as a possible source; ABC News quoted three unnamed government sources as saying the powder in the letters matched the type produced in Iraq.
They NEVER STOP LYING!!!!!
And CUI BONO?
Even though most serious analysts were highly skeptical that the tainted letters came from Hussein, the mere possibility that Iraq could have maintained a stockpile of anthrax was enough to convince many people that it was a looming threat...
To many others in Congress, the media, and the general public, the anthrax attacks made the administration's later arguments seem more credible: If an enemy of the United States could start killing people by sending powder through the mail, there might indeed be a justification for more precipitous action.
In the end, of course, there was no anthrax found in Iraq - and no weapons of mass destruction of any sort.
Yeah, no one spends much time on the pile of lies except the blogs that hammer away at it day after day.
Bunch of MASS-MURDERING WAR-CRIMINAL LIARS down there!!!!
Meanwhile, Ivins continued his biodefense work at Fort Detrick, Md. The low-key father of two didn't come under serious suspicion until the last two years, when the FBI placed him under surveillance.
WTF?
Until then, he had actually helped in the investigation of the attacks. He helped test the anthrax samples sent by the killer and, in a bizarre incident, worked as a Red Cross volunteer helping to bring refreshments to investigators who drained a lake near Fort Detrick for evidence.
Maybe THAT is WHY he was KILLED!!!!
Fort Detrick also where the Army developed AIDS.
Coincidence?
Back in March 2003, he and several colleagues received the Defense Department's highest civilian honor for producing a possible anthrax vaccine. That very month, US troops were launching their mission in Iraq.
If he was, indeed, the anthrax killer, the invasion, not the vaccine, was Ivins's most significant legacy.
--MORE--"The LYING COVER UP just gets STINKIER and STINKIER!!!
And if they are lying about this thing, the rest is just... not to be believed!!!!
