[aristeides]

Sorry, Justin. You're wrong this time. The evidence that Iraq is behind the anthrax attacks is mounting, and a lot of the evidence that you cite to the contrary is official disinformation meant to discourage people from reaching the conclusion that we ought to attack Iraq.

The Ames, IA strain of the anthrax may be no big deal, but the coating and aerosolization of the anthrax is a big deal.

Have you noticed the official statement from Iran implying pretty clearly that this is Iraqi anthrax?

President Bush was just on C-SPAN delivering his signing statement for the antiterrorism bill. He explicitly connected the anthrax with the terrorists.

[Justin Raimondo]

"Official disinformation"? And which government is behind this -- the Iraqis? Or is it the US government you're talking about?

Uh, I want to make clear that I don't believe the scientific evidence rules out Al Qaeda as the source of the anthrax. Only that the evidence we have so far means that the investigation has to be broadening to include the possibility that it is a domestic group. And, of course, since Al Qaeda has succeeded in setting up "sleeper cells," people who have lived here for a while, this really begins to blur the line between "domestic" and "foreign" terrorism.

On the Iraq question: any objective assessment of the evidence points AWAY from Iraq, at least so far.