Posted on 10/15/2001 9:42:07 AM PDT by YaYa123
Stop deleting this report...it is valid!
"WASHINGTON (AP) - A letter opened in the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle ``had anthrax in it,'' President Bush (news - web sites) said Monday.
Bush said the envelope was field-tested shortly after being received, and the staffers who have been exposed are being treated.
Speaking to reporters at the White House, Bush said ``there may be some possible link'' between Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) and a recent flurry of anthrax-related developments.
``I wouldn't put it past him but we don't have any hard evidence,'' he said of the man suspected as the leader behind Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that killed thousands.
A spokesman for Daschle said the suspicious package was received at the majority leader's office in a Senate office building across the street from the Capitol.
Separately, one source said that when it was opened, a powdery white substance fell out. Capitol Police were summoned, the office sealed, and the workers immediately given a text for anthrax exposure. There was no immediate word on the results of those tests.
But Bush, in responding to a reporter's question, said he had just talked with Daschle. ``His office received a letter and it had anthrax in it. The letter was field-tested. And the staffers that have been exposed are being treated.''
The president made his comments after a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the latest in a steady stream of foreign leaders to visit Washington in the wake of the terrorist attacks."
My thoughts exactly.
I also wonder if irradiation would work to kill the spores? Maybe they could start running the mail through an irradiator.
Are you kidding? Ask an extreme left-winger what he thinks of these people and he will say that they are "corporate controlled", "in the back pocket of big business", etc. So by this logic, of looking for a political pattern among the victims, it could just as easily be a left-wing terrorist as a "McVeigh type".
And yet you don't consider that possibility. Why not?
It doesn't, to me. Extreme left-wingers would certainly not think of the likes of Brokaw and Daschle as being on their side. These guys are hated as much by the extreme left as by the extreme right. So there's no reason to jump to any such conclusions (...yet).
Why is this so hard to understand for some people?
From the point of view of a terrorist: You want your attacks to be publicized and gain attention (that's the whole point). Attacking the media is completely logical from this point of view. Attacking prominent politicians (which the Senate Majority leader certainly is) is completely logical from this point of view. It isn't rocket science.
Certain people (some of them with an obvious agenda) keep asking "Why would Osama attack these Americans? He doesn't have any bones to pick with the media or Daschle!"
Apparently such people have never listened to or read Osama's words. We Americans are infidels. He does hate these people because they are infidels.
In this light the attacks aren't really so difficult to figure out.
The same logic also applies to a madman like Saddam Hussein (since he is probably completely mixed in this).
I am wondering though if ABC and CNN will be attacked since they do provide the best propaganda for the Bin Laden's of the world. If they are not, then our enemies would be showing a modicum of reasoning, but only a modicum.
I was just listening to Daschle's news conference on Rush. Daschle was asked his reaction to the attack on his office. He said among other things that he was disappointed.
At what? That they would attack him instead of a conservative?
No it is a the typical liberal PC response.. they are always disappointed.
Liberals expect to be loved and wanted. When they are not they are disappointed. Finding out that people can be bad is a new disappointment for Tom.
He is not angry. He does not demand pay back....no.... he is disappointed. Perhaps he would reccomend counciling for bin Laden. Yes that is a Daschle solution.. when people disappoint you ask them to take counciling.
Tom does not understand that a reaction of disappointment will only lead to further attacks.
Did Daschle react with cold fury? Did Daschle promise payback? Did Daschle demand justice?
How long did the government know anthrax was being sent out? Did it kill anyone by failing to let people know?
Look for Hitlery, Gebfart, etc. to get some "sympathy packages" from the DNC Dirty Tricks Squad soon too. Why would Osama send anthrax to Commie Tommie? You don't try to hurt your friends, and the liberal wing of the DemoKrat party is every bit as anti-American as Osama.
There are some trying to blame this on right wing groups. I don't believe many right wing groups are based out of these areas. I believe it was arabs that need to be deported now!!!
This could be a bunch of idiot staffers trying to terrorize each other. They all know who opens the mail in the other offices. Total stuff and nonsense is what this looks like. These goobers should have all gone home by now anyway.
Darn, darn, double darn. Triple darn.
Daschle has been out in front in support of the President on terrorism so his being a target wouldn't make a lot of sense unless it was by terrorist. I would tend to go along with the folks that say it is an act of international terrorism. Besides how many ultra-right-wing lunatics live in Trenton, NJ, compared to those folks of Islam?
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WHEREAS the successful prosecution of the war required every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense materials, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities, as defined:
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