[Eva]

I think that I read that the transfer of these materials was part of a World Sharing of medical information for the purpose of study, arranged by the UN.

[HighWheeler]

"Despite his youthful membership in the Klan, Byrd served as Democratic Senate Leader. "

Uh Huh, "youthful".

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Robert Byrd was born in North Wilksboro on 20th November, 1917. His mother died the following year and he was brought up by his aunt and uncle in West Virginia. After attending local public schools he worked in a gas filling station, meat cutter and as a salesman. On the outbreak of the Second World War Byrd found work as a welder building ships in the construction yards of Baltimore and Maryland.

A strong opponent of African American civil rights Byrd was an advocate of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1946 Byrd announced that: "The Ku Klux Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth in West Virginia".

A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd became a member of the West Virginia senate in 1951. He was first elected to the Congress in 1958 and was re-elected in 1964, 1970, 1976, 1982, 1988, 1994 and 2000. After a period as a Democratic whip (1971-1977) Byrd was Majority Leader (1977-80 and 1987-88) and Minority Leader (1981-86) of the Senate.

Byrd was also chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee (1989 to 2001) and in 1989 was elected President of the Senate.

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You may be a liberal if you think Liberal Senator Robert Byrd was too "youthful" to know what he was doing as a Klan Wizard at 29, but a teenage girl is perfectly capable of making a decision on her own to have an abortion.

HighWheeler

[uncommonsense]

Senate Banking Committee report... said that in 1985, five years after the Iraq-Iran war started, and in the succeeding years, disease producing, poisonous and other biological research materials were exported to Iraq.

A better researched article said the CDC provided medical samples of these diseases for medical research (diagnostics, physician training, etc.). There were no weapons grade materials provided, no manuals on how to create biological weapons, nor was US support provided to create weapons. If Dashole believes the report, then we can be certian that the information is flawed.

[marron]

It gets worse. There are reports, as yet unsubstantiated, that FDR had dealings with mass murderer and known Stalinist, Stalin, supposedly sending weapons and even holding face to face meetings with him.

For those of us who revere Rooselvelt, such reports are not taken seriously, and yet they persist.

[The Great Satan]

Oooh, E. coli! What were they thinking? Take a dump and get a clue.