"a well placed source?"
More like "Our well placed source- the greeter at Walmart who knows everything."
Gimme a break.
The post has some great reporting that most in the media don't have the cajones to print, but I'm not buying this as far as I can throw a house.
Although, does certainly remind me of the strategy misinformation tactics we brilliantly accomplished in WWII where we had Hitler thinking Patton was planning an invasion from the south, and a methodical effort using the U.S. Press in bits and pieces created at least an inkling of confusion in the enemy.
At best this is what this might be. Otherwise, why on earth would Bush be saying each time he's asked if this is linked to terrorism, "yes there are links, it is evil, it is an attack on the homeland.. etc.", but never really coming right out and saying it was Iraq or whack case Osama.
This nation has one of the most successful track records of throwing off the enemy as to strategy.
I mean hell, we bluffed our way through years and years in the cold war of not letting the Soviets know we knew they had more nukes than we did for a number of years, and then we pulled off not letting them know that we had more nukes.
Reagan pulled off the most incredible bluff in history- Gorbachev thought we might already have a Missile Defense system ready to be put on line, and the Soviet leaders came to the conclusion- and this was unbelievable that they bought it hook line and sinker- that they could not compete with such technology- the USSR literally collapsed from within based on a bluff.
In times of war, we just know how to do the bluff better than anybody, and the pyschological edge you gain from that can be tangible results.
If Sadam or Al Queda thinks for a second that the U.S. believes the anthrax is domestic, we are already screwing with their heads- they would think we are incomptetent- and that means they can base their strategy on that possibility-something that gives us an edge.
Few Americans actually realize how sophisticated our ability is in this regard.
This is going to take a very long while to set up, and if so, we can expect that when the bluff doesn't work anymore, we might get hit hard here. Which may be why Cheney and Bush keep saying -every once in a while - that we will have more casualties here at home than overseas. If it is state-sponsored, we can be sure there will be a moment when the state or states in question won't have much to lose when we act. Hopefully we're not all bluff.