Posted on 09/11/2002 7:57:33 AM PDT by Dog Gone
Well, crap. Why didn't we try this before? If Saddam had only known that Congress had questions he would have soiled himself in his haste to let the inspectors back in. </sarcasm>, in case nobody could tell.
Yet, we may be forced to find one and be turned away before the missiles fly. It's crazy.
Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.Va
Am I the only one suprised to see a (D) after this persons name
Nah... the only surprise is that the AP mentioned it.
Correct you are that grits are not a West Virginia staple. Brown beans, cornbread, fried potatoes, chicken, and dumplings are.
Incestuous dating isn't a West Virginian stereotype either. That'd (crassly) be a Southern state joke, and after seeing the type of man who occupied the White House the past eight year administration, maybe there's something to it.
Barefoot hicks? That, too, would be predominantly Southern Appalachian, but SOME of it is Mountaineer. Moonshine Stills were a part of the state's heritage, but so too was it all up and down that mountain region of states.
NOTE: The Beverly Hillbillies were from TENNESSEE and the state of Kentucky is legendary for exceptional bourbon.Hollyweird did, however, give the Mountain State "The Real McCoys", which was fraught with incorrect stereotypes (The McCoys of Hatfield & McCoy fame were from the Kentucky side of the Ohio river border).
So, what IS West Virginian? Hunting, trapping, fishing, coal mining, & historic mine disasters come to mind. Crooked politics of the Democrat persuasion would be the other. After all, West Virginia was sort of the Australia of pre-Civil War Virginia. All the scoundrels & criminals who were wanted by the state of Virginia knew they could escape justice there by high-tailing it "over the mountain" that soon became the border of the new state born in 1863, and that Virginia wouldn't waste the effort coming after them.
The Institute for Public Accuracy that helped fund Rahall’s trip to Iraq is a group to which a woman named Dr. Meryl Nass belongs; she has ties to and past visits to communist Cuba [and peddles their propaganda]. She and another gal by the name of Rosenberg were involved with going after Steven Hatfill with a bs story about an anthrax outbreak in Rhodesia before it was renamed. They were hand-in-hand with Nancy Pelosi and her kangaroo hearings in the Amerithrax case, a case in which Russiagate’s Robert Mueller also played a part with his magic bloodhounds. In the past Nass was involved in pushing fears of the anthrax vaccination of US troops, probably on behalf of Cuba, which is aligned with Iran and in the time period of the anthrax attack and earlier during vaccinations, both countries’ leaders were threatening to bring down the United States. Part of Nass’s activity concerns pushing the idea of the Gulf War Syndrome as being caused not by exposure to Iraqi chemicals but due to vaccines.
More recently, Nass has apparently become involved in the Covid19 drug controversies, and this is probably still info fed to her by Cuba and Iran. I just found this out because the medication debate bored me, but if Nass is involved then whatever she is peddling may be of interest and give insight into Pelosi’s moves too.
Naji Sabri/Sabril the FM of Iraq that Rahall and Abourezk went to meet... was involved in this Tyler Drumheller / Sid Blumenthal / CIA debate over Iraq and al Qaeda:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1702804/posts
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that is an old thread, what is the importance in this day to bring it back?
For Nass, in my anthrax files, I have her quoted in the NYT on September 16, 2002: "Dr. Meryl J. Nass, anthrax expert and advisor to one of the survivors – 'It’s very peculiar to me that these people haven’t had the million-dollar work-up that they deserve. Nobody has made an attempt to gather them together and test them all for the same things and compare the results. That’s how you make a determination of what’s wrong with them.'". Then on October 5, 2002 I have her quoted in connection with the Hatfill investigation as stating that the anthtrax toll may have been higher than reported: "Dr. Meryl Nass, on the possibility that the anthrax toll may have been higher than officially reported – 'One of my patient’s sisters treated a case, and one of my cousins treated another with the classic rash, both postal workers in the New York metropolitan area. And several New York City postal workers died of unknown causes at the same time, which seems suspicious.'" As you mention, she's also been a Congressional witness on Gulf War illness. Here's her current bio. Meryl Nass, MD, ABIM, is an internist with special interests in vaccine-induced illnesses, chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War illness, fibromyalgia, and toxicology. As a biological warfare epidemiologist, she investigated world's largest anthrax epizootic, in Zimbabwe, and developed a model for analyzing epidemics to assess whether they are natural or man-made. An anthrax expert, Nass has reviewed government-sponsored anthrax research in the context of the Biological Weapons Convention, used anthrax as a model for discussion of how to prevent biological warfare, reviewed anthrax vaccines and their role in biological warfare prophylaxis, and played a central role in educating service members, Congress, and the public about anthrax and the science underlying anthrax vaccine use, as well as other methods of responding to the anthrax threat. She has played a major role in creation of a coalition that has fought the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program. Nass is active in assisting legal teams defending anthrax vaccine refusers and ill service members in the U.S. and Canada.
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