60 Minutes: Iraq Has Smallpox

NewsMax.com ^ | 10/7/01 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[coder2]

60 Minutes reported Sunday night that Iraq has a strain of smallpox.

Smallpox is a deadly and highly contagious virus.

Only two countries were believed to have strains of the virus, the U.S. and Russia.

60 Minutes' Mike Wallace reported this evening that Saddam Hussein acquired some of the smallpox virus from a laboratory in Russia.

Russian scientists have also been helping countries like Iraq and Iran developed biological weapons.

[Diogenesis]

This cannot be true. If it is they should be atomized.

[DWSUWF]

Now what can we do to sterilize these filthy bugs?

(And destroy the smallpox organisms too...)

[dighton]

It's a simple equation. Smallpox on us = B61 on Mr. Hussein.

[Mulder]

Now what can we do to sterilize these filthy bugs?

I'm thinking something involving a lot of heat (the temperature type of heat; not the type associated with the feelings that a typical sand goblin feels toward a camel).

[KevinDavis]

I take it has a nice Mushroom cloud with the big heat.

[FReethesheeples]

bump

[OWK]

It's a simple equation. Smallpox on us = B61 on Mr. Hussein.

If it can be verified that Saddam Hussein is attempting to develop smallpox into a biological warfare agent, I would recommend the themonuclear sterilization option as a proactive measure.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Did 60 Minutes issue an apology for CBS News for its unswerving loyalty to the most corrupt President of the 20th Century--Bill Clinton--a man who did NOTHING to enforce the inspections mandated against the murderous Saddam Hussein?

Probably not.

[FReethesheeples]

Love your solution (B61) with your Link at #4, above! KUDOS!

If we don't use it, or something like it, we are damned fools!

[FReethesheeples]

Love your solution (B61) with your Link at #4, above! KUDOS!

If we don't use it, or something like it, we are damned fools!

[FReethesheeples]

Good point @ # 9!

[eclectic]

I like the smell of plutonium in the morning

[MississippiMan]

I have no doubt that they have this or something equally ghastly, nor any doubt that they intend to use it. I wish we'd take them out before they have the chance, but we won't.

MM

[dighton]

An ounce of prevention ...

[Gemflint]

Personally, I'd rather not skimp on the insurance - why not use some of our the 500KT missiles some of our subs are supposed to be carrying? That way we *ensure* we don't miss any of those nasty little microbes (and the smallpox too!)...

[kidd]

I agree, and I don't want to start a Libertarian-Conservative war, but isn't that against Libertarian ideals?

[deathtoallterrorists]

I think it is a foregone conclusion we will be paying a visit to Iraq in the not too distant future.

[FreedomPoster]

Actually, a W76 off of a Trident would seem more appropriate. But who's quibbling.
Oh, I guess I am. Never mind.