As conspiracies go, this is a doozy

It just dawned on me that the press has a "pack" mentality. What ever one "animal" writes, the rest of the "pack" joins in. So much for individual thought.

I just sent the original URL to my senator John Forbes Kerry Heinz, the next president of the United States-NOT! Drudge has a Bbanner headline quoting Kerry dissembling about Bush.
I fear that Sen. Heinz won't rehabilitate himself though.

Blix also reported Iraq possessed 650 kilograms of “bacterial growth media'

I always wondered exactly what this stuff is. Is it something I might have in my house? We grew cultures in microbiology in college. I can't remember what it was. We used something very much like Jello. It may have been flavorless Jello. Did Saddam have stockpiles of Jello?

I often find bacterial growth medium in various containers in my refrigerator.

This also is due to the fact that journalists have another character trait in common: laziness.

Why work for a story when you can paraphrase what the other guy wrote?

Blix also reported Iraq possessed 650 kilograms of “bacterial growth media'

I have several kilos of bacterial growth media. It's called protein supplements.

People who exercise or lift weights often supplement their diets with protein, which is a great place to grow bacteria. If you don't wash out the container you mix your drinks in, it gets really nasty, really fast! This is why our highest protein foods spoil very quickly (Chicken, fish). Bacteria need good food too, and protein is what they love.

So theoretically, a couple of kilos of "Joe Weiders Super Protein" or whatever can be used to breed bacteria.

One of his sons was like Tyson, the Clinton donor- he operated a huge chicken production enterprise which for some reason didn't feed all those "starving Iraqis" that the UN inspections had deprived of food, acording to lefties everywhere. Nonetheless, he had this huge chicken biz.

Chickens produce eggs as well as meat- the meat went into his freezers instead of into Iraqis and later some was found by US troops and consumed on the spot as a relief from all those MREs.

The eggs went into both food for people and into growth medium.

Of course, this is difficult to prove since eggs are "dual use." So long as folks were eating eggs, the Hussein clan could claim that's where all the eggs were going.

Except for that little problem they had with the UN inspectors, who found Iraqi weapons program documents, etc, stashed beneath a chicken coop.

(snip)Iraq's position that no documents or weapons remain is not credible. It denied a cache of documents until 1995, when Saddam Hussein's renegade son revealed a stash of 680,000 pages hidden in a chicken coop. Only after that did Iraq surrender the bulk of documents that have been recovered. Similarly, those documents revealed major stores of chemical weapons, the existence of which previously had been denied. (/snip)

It appears that Iraqi chicken coops are also "dual use."

The mod did fix it (thanks). My understanding was that if Wash Post stuff was in other papers, at other urls, the Post had already agreed to give it up to non-Post readers, so to speak. Those other urls are paying the Post to use their stuff, so who owns the stuff once the Canton Repository, for example, pays to publish an article made available by the Post?

Anyway, don't want to run afoul of the rules.

WOW. Good work on the compilation thread. That url should be sent to every Rat who opens his/her trap on WMD, every time they open it.

Bump for later.

The chicken farm in question was supposedly his son-in-law Kamal's. General Kamal was the one who defected.

One of Hussein's sons had a chicken enterprise too. Or maybe he just took over Kamal's.

I'm sure I'll be flamed handily for saying this, but it's been bugging me for a while now. We've talked so much about how much more we can "trust" President Bush than someone like the 'toon. But, I can't help but see an disheartening similarity between clinton's finger waving, and Mr. Powel holding up the vial of "anthrax" powder at the u.n. To me, the Bush administration made it all about the urgency - the impending disaster. Sure, you can argue all you want about, "well, the u.n. was looking for months, it will take time". But to me, just an average joe in Wisconsin, I honestly expected them to be able to produce SOMETHING in the way of evidence, especially after how they had hounded us daily about the MASSIVE amounts of weapons at his disposal. I read somewhere else here this morning that the administration feels that any voter displeasure over the inability to find any WMD will be overshadowed the the overall succcess of the operation. Well, say what you want, but I hold the administration to a higher standard than that.

An interesting development to me is hillary. She initially supported the war due to "the large amount of intelligence data that she and bill had seen during their administration." Now, she has changed her mind and says she was duped by Bush.

Does she now think she was duped during their administration?

Rumsfield made a good comment the other day: "We can't find Saddam either, but we know he's over there somewhere too." Saddam had weeks and months to clean up and move this stuff across the borders. I too wish they could find some actual WMD, but there is enough other evidence (for me) to indicate that he had the means and ability.

I also don't understand how everyone was upset about 9/11 - that we should have taken the intelligence seriously and proactively protected ourselves. With Saddam we did - and now we wonder if we over reacted. I think we have to do more to protect our selves from known threats - and did with Saddam.

Are you saying that eggs are used to make this "growth material"? Wouldn't it either be thrown out at some point or turned into Iraqi eggnog?

What ever one "animal" writes, the rest of the "pack" joins in.

They think they smell blood.