[taxesareforever]

Don't know where to begin with this diatribe. First, the incident I was referring to was the envelope in the Senate. I have never heard of an incident of anthrax killing 5 people in the U.S. Even it it did, is that a reason to spend huge sums of money to stockpile a serum because "something sometime" might happen? You're right. I do believe that 80% of government spending is is wasted. "Vaccine Combined With Short-term Postexposure Antibiotics Protects Monkeys From Inhalational Anthrax ,"

Okay, now what about humans. I could care less about the monkeys.

[neverdem]

Don't know where to begin with this diatribe. First, the incident I was referring to was the envelope in the Senate. I have never heard of an incident of anthrax killing 5 people in the U.S.

In an incident reminiscent of the deadly anthrax scare that killed five people in the fall of 2001, police at a Senate office building in Washington, D.C., Monday discovered traces of a poisonous substance called ricin.

It was the same strain of bacteria that killed folks from New York to Florida which was simultaneous with the mailed anthrax to the Senate. I don't know why I should bother this discussion any longer. The threat of weapons of mass destruction in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 was apparently the only convincing argument for the dems in Congress who voted for the war powers resolution. If you don't think we face a threat from biological warfare, so be it.

Okay, now what about humans. I could care less about the monkeys.

Do you know anything about medical research?