Posted on 03/15/2005 4:19:58 PM PST by WL-law
The latest anthrax reports in military mailrooms -- off-again, on-again, first positive, then negative -- raise an important observation, which is to observe, in retrospect, the MSM's absolutely, totally incurious attitude toward the 9/11 related anthrax attacks during the election cycle.
There were no anthrax-related questions at the debates, no anthrax investigations by the media, no retrospective stories.
Likewise with the so-called 9/11 commission.
It was as if -- it never happened.
Why??
It was, like Ann Coulter said, as if the MSM had their hands over their ears and humming aloud at the thought that someone might bring the subject up.
And there's a reason -- because any thoughtful inquiry points to the 9/11 hijackers themselves as the source, and the link is to Iraq as the source, which makes a WMD connection and an Iraq connection to 9/11.
Can't allow that, can we? That particular truth would, as a necessary consequence, justify the Iraq invasion and support Bush's re-election. No, can't allow that.
Much like the Washington Snipers, the MSM pinned the crime on some rightwing crazy. Their story fell apart, and we are left, still, with the most obvious culprit being an Islamist - so of course the press is going to bury the topic.
Then again, some of the more extreme elements of the Left still claim the anthrax mailings were some deep dark government conspiracy a la Babs Hatch Rosenberg.
...that turned up where? Well, nowhere, yet. The spores are extremely difficult to destroy, and Saddam was required to present proof that he had, in fact, destroyed them. And the reason Blix was so skeptical was that in order to do so he would have had to come up with some new (and potentially very useful) method unknown as yet to Western science.
Perhaps Saddam was lying and this amount never existed, the test results having been faked. Other than that the best we can hope for is that he dumped it in a pit in the desert somewhere, in which case the only ones at hazard are the poor nomads or travelers who might happen across the stuff and die a most unpleasant death. But if it did exist and was not destroyed there is a large amount of very nasty stuff that might turn up anywhere.
The MSM continues to show its pathetic political bias, desire to obstruct a functional President through deliberate omissions, lies, and half-truths in their so-called reporting. I don't know about you, but I am having a hard time really figuring out WHO THE REAL ENEMIES OF THIS COUNTRY ARE...both INTERNAL and EXTERNAL...
The reality is that there's been nothing to report, hence nothing has been reported.
Anything of substance about the case will come from the FBI, and they've said nothing.
The Bush Administration, then, must be behind the coverup of the Anthrax being Al Queda/Iraqi...err, wait, why, exactly, would they cover that up?
I personally believe the case will never be solved. If it was it would have been already.
I suspect the NBC and New York Post letters were addressed to those locations solely for the purpose of routing them through certain postal facilities in New York.
That is, that the intention of the attack was to disable the postal service in key locations, e.g. the nation's capital, and New York's business and communications center downtown!
Huh?
The press voraciously opposed the notion that the mailings were the work of Islamists from early on and stuck to their story, even when there were interesting substories that would have made it into the news had they fit the MSM's profile.
That pattern will continue for the forseeable future.
Yes, the Washington snipers would seem to be a big story with a lot of human interest, which could increase circulation and ratings, but they buried it as soon as they found out who the perps were.
They used to excuse their excesses as resulting from the boss's greed, but it's clear that ideology trumps earnings any day of the week.
"Fake envelopes" don't count.
How naive can they be?
Now, that we have won and Saddam is in custody, why don't we just come out with some evidence that he was behind it?
I remember seeing some of the younger Islamist's prison drawings posted on the net. It removed any and all doubts that this was Islamist terror to my mind.
Did the drawings ever make it onto the alphabets? I don't recall them being covered, but by viewership of the MSM is rather spotty nowadays.
Well my own take is that FBI blew the investigation so badly that the government knows about the same amount we do - it was probably Islamists, seeing the cutaneous anthrax infection specifically a group working closely with the 9/11 hijackers, and that they probably got the anthrax from Iraq - but that is about it.
I am to this day intrigued though by Atta seeking a loan on a small plane that he could modify to be a "crop duster", seeing as Iraq had designed anthrax drop tanks, one of which was never accounted for...
Bingo.
Your point 3 should be number 1, in bold. That's what its all about IMO.
Just noting that a weaponized anthrax attack would be devastating.
The postal outlet in Miami hit by two (which remained sealed) letters has finally be reopened after 3 and half years.
The aftermath of an attack: Imagine a ghost town city for 50 years. Electric fences around it to prevent animals from going in and out. Hunters stationed 24/7 around the whole area shooting down birds going in and out so they cannot spread the spores. Anytime a big wind hits the city, the fences have to moved outward. Everyone within airborne range having to vaccinated with (an effective) vaccine. Skeletons left all over the area from people who died in the 2 weeks after the attack trying to escape the city and dragging the spores along with them as they flee.
A nuke attack would likely be easier to handle than a major anthrax attack.
They seemed to leave out the muslim connection to O.C. bombing, too.
I wonder if any information about the strain of this sample will be released - is it the same weaponized stuff from 2001?
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