Posted on 10/06/2004 2:44:51 PM PDT by huac
The Democrats are already using the Deulfer Report to attack the Bush administration on WMD/Iraq. In 2001, America was attacked with a WMD, anthrax. After several years, law enforcement has not found the source or point of production of the anthrax, even though it was probably domestic in origin. Yet the Bush adminstration is catigated for not finding Sadaam's WMD's, despite all the resources and time he had to dispose of them.
Domestic WMD's: http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1119/p2s2-usju.html; http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/testspointdomestic.html
I'm having a real problem with this, Didn't Dulfer say just a few months ago that they had found about a dozen chemical artillery rounds in various places throughout Iraq?Can somebody explain to me why these rounds somehow don't count?I know a dozen doesn't count as a huge stockpile but it should surely count as evidence that he had them.What am I missing?
I have not read this report, but I am pretty sure that Iraq used WMDs against Iran and a village of kurds in Northern Iraq in the past. Now Saddam might have gotten rid of his weapons, but he sure was not acting like he got rid of them, so I say tough (Dale Jr.'s comment). We captured a bad guy who once had weapons that once invaded his neighbor and supported the terrorism in Israel.
The U.S. government is familiar with the anthrax weaponization processes developed by the United States, the former Soviet Union (courtesy of a defector - the project manager), the United Kingdom and other friendly countries.
The only countries known to have anthrax weaponization processes whose techniques are not known to us were China, North Korea and Iraq. We have some knowledge of China's and especially North Korea's - just not complete knowledge as we did of the USSR's.
The anthrax weaponization process for the Fall 2001 anthrax was quite sophisticated - much more so than the crude North Korean knockoff of an older Soviet process.
The U.S. government, with all its resources, has not been able to duplicate the process used to weaponize the anthrax used against us.
Developing a wholly new anthrax weaponization process requires an industrial scale research & development effort. While some methods of producing weaponized anthrax using known methods can be done by small groups of technically competent people (notably the processes used by the former Soviet Union), developing a brand new weaponization process like the 2001 variety requires a massive effort.
Only a government can SECRETLY develop a wholly new anthrax weaponization process. The effort required is so vast that it cannot be done secretly without government power to keep it a secret.
So it wasn't Hatfill. The FBI's "lone gunman" theory is a complete fabrication.
The single most likely government to have secretly developed the weaponization process used on us is Iraq under Saddam Hussein's regime. It was known to have such a weaponization program. Whether it had the requisite technical sophistication to do so is the major question. North Korea could not have done it. China could have. Iraq might have.
There is significant circumstantial evidence pointing to Iraq. A Florida pharmacist reported treating one of the 9/11 hijackers for lesions which in hindsight he feels were caused by cutaneous anthrax. And the man who brought the victim to him was Mohammed Atta, who seems to have met with an agent of Iraqi intelligence in Prague before 9/11.
So we have a confluence of means, motive and opportunity on Iraq as the source of the anthrax used on us.
Your conclusion as to the foreign origin of the anthrax used domestically is disturbing. It also makes a strong argument against Kerry's purported strategy for the War on Terrorism. Kerry has said that combating terrorism should be more intelligence and law enforcement oriented than the robust (and successful) Bush Doctrine. This case of domestic WMD usage argues as to the deficiencies of law enforcement in these issues. We cannot approach the use of WMD's as a question of law, with all it's niceties. This is a case of better to err on the side of self-interest(as opposed to allowing ourselves to be attacked). Regarding your assessment that the anthrax was produced by a state agent, it confirms my fear that even if the FBI "lone gunman" theory was correct, think of what an individual such as Hussein, with his considerable resources, could do.
A Kerry Administration would pin it on ANYONE just to appease the whiners !
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