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I heard on the local CBS radio affiliate this morning that it was thought to be domestic. However, the report went on to say that the anthrax was treated by a drying agent available in only 3 countries.... The US, Russia...and Iraq!!

It sure seems that some people in government are absolutely going out of their way to deflect blame away from Iraq. It smells like a CIA disinformation campaign...

Questions:

Why do it? Do they fear war with Iraq, or do they want to keep it on the back burner until they are ready to strike?

Is their a concerted effort to discredit and attack the far right? Perhaps to tie them in with the terrorists so that extra-constitutional tools can be used against them?

Has there been any real evidence of cooperation with right wing-groups and islamic terrorists?

Your thoughts....

Mike

Right-wing grooups in Germany have worked with Islamic terrorists.

But the interesting thing is that there is no more evidence to blame domestic terror than there is to blame middle eastern terror groups- even less evidence to blame domestic groups, since we actually have terrorists linked to the anthrax victims through the rental down in FL. We're supposed to ignore that and accept 'handwriting analysis?'

And if domestic, there is no evidence one way or another to point to their motivation other than the notes themselves, which sure don't point out any ideology other than hate, and reference Allah. The far right doesn't have a monopoly on that. You would think a terror group would at least point out something to justify its cause, rather than draw attention away from it. Why do an act at all if your point won't be understood?

In spite of the lack of evidence pointing to domestic terror, and certainly a lack of evidence toward a specific terror group or its position on the scale, the press is gobbling it up and regurgitating the info as if it comes from major known sources.

Why do it? Do they fear war with Iraq, or do they want to keep it on the back burner until they are ready to strike? Is their a concerted effort to discredit and attack the far right? Perhaps to tie them in with the terrorists so that extra-constitutional tools can be used against them?

I'll put my two cents in. I agree with the others that assert that there has been a concerted effort by our government and some of our allies from 9/11 to deflect attention away from Iraq and its almost certain involvement in that tragedy and the anthrax spread.

There's good purpose for that--one domino at a time. By keeping the focus on the renegade Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, we can keep our very loose alliance intact until our goal of demolishing the Taliban and Al Qaeda is accomplished, which would be a very large and important accomplishment on many fronts.

Then we can turn our attention to Iraq and other terrorists sponsoring countries, which will require a much longer and more protracted process of alliance building. It took Bush 41 almost a year to create the alliance we needed for the Gulf War. Bush 43 was able to cobble together an alliance to go after Bin Laden within weeks. It will take much, much longer to do so before attacking Iraq--which I believe is inevitable. Iraq may not even be next on the list, who knows?. One domino at a time--and you start with the most easily to topple first, then work your way down the line.