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To: better_dead_then_red
I'm a little tired of the car accident comparison because its, well, silly.

It isn't silly at all. What we are talking about is the risk of you or anyone else not making it through the day. The risk of me being killed driving 20 miles around Atlanta on onw of the interstates is greater than it is for me catching and dying from an exposure to anthrax. The real value of an anthrax attack to the terrorists is all the media attention and hype. Setting off a couple of bombs would kill more people, but right now they are attacking our psych and our infrastructure. They want to shut down the airlines, restrict travel, and create fear.

Richard W.

123 posted on 10/22/2001 4:55:37 PM PDT by arete
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To: arete
Innocent people are being killed in the process of this small-scale bio attack/test run. Just because the numbers are small that doesn't mean we should ignore it. It's not just a matter of curable cutaneous anthrax. These people that just died didn't even know they had the inhaled form. If 5 people die today and 5 next week and 10 the week after that are you saying it doesn't matter because the numbers aren't in the thousands? Biowarfare is biowarfare.
124 posted on 10/22/2001 5:03:33 PM PDT by freeperfromnj
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