In Cipro We Trust

[Joanne98]

Wait a sec….I thought Iraq was responsible for the anthrax attacks :


CHAT PARTICIPANT: Is there any proof at all that Hussein is involved in the anthrax scares?

MYLROIE: There is no proof that Saddam is involved in the anthrax scares, but proof is different from evidence. Proof, according to the dictionary, is conclusive demonstration. Evidence is something that indicates, like your smile is evident of your affection for me. There is evidence that Iraq is behind the anthrax scares. First, it takes a highly sophisticated agency to produce anthrax in the lethal form that was in the letter sent to Senator Daschle. Not many parties can do that. Second, there is an additive in that anthrax, bentonite, which is used to cause the anthrax to not stick together, and float in the air. Iraq is the only party known to have produced anthrax with bentonite.

CHAT PARTICIPANT: Should the U.S.take action against Iraq?

MYLROIE: Yes. It is necessary for the United States to take action against Iraq. The 1991 Gulf War never ended. We continue it in the form of an economic siege whose origins lie in the Gulf War. And also, we bomb Iraq on a regular basis, and Saddam continues his part of the war in the form of terrorism. It is unlikely that that anthrax will remain in letters. It is likely that it will be used at some point, for example, in the subway of a city, or in the ventilation system of a U.S. building. Saddam wants revenge against us. He wants to do to the U.S. what we’ve done to Iraq. One way he can do that is terrorism, particularly biological terrorism.

Then again, who would believe the “crackpot” theories of Laurie Mylroie? Well, there’s this guy :

At the Pentagon, Wolfowitz was an insistent force behind an invasion of Iraq, bringing it up at the first National Security Council meeting of the Bush administration, months before Sept. 11. For years he had been a firm believer in the crackpot theories of Laurie Mylroie, a neoconservative writer, who argued that Saddam was behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and even the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

…and these guys :


For those of you playing “six degrees of neoconservatism”, Laurie Mylroie also co-wrote a book with Judy Miller about - you guessed it - Saddam Hussein.

Now that the neocons have mostly moved on the greener pastures, I’m sure we can expect the “evidence” that Bruce Ivins was an Iranian double-agent to surface any day now…

http://thismodernworld.com/4415

File under "media humiliation"...

[gratuitous]

1. Golly, will Laurie be able to find work ever again?

My goodness, being that astoundingly, lethally, expensively wrong must surely have crippled her career.

{Giggle}

[Joanne98]

2. LOL