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We are dallying about hitting Iraq because, through this escalating anthrax terror campaign, Saddam has signalled to us that he has succesfully forward positioned agents with weapons of mass destruction on US soil. From a balance-of-power standpoint, it's just as if he had nuclear-tipped ICBMs pointed at America.

That’s a gross exagerration. A weapon that has killed exactly one person so far can hardly be called a weapon of mass destruction, and it is certainly not comparable to a nuclear ICBM.

(BTW, Sarah Brady just called, she wants her hyperbole back. 8-)

Wait a minute. FOX reported spores in the ventalation system and tunnels , and Hasterts office.
Then CNN said no, just an over reaction.
Now Pataki.
Who's right? FOX saying spores are all over the place, or CNN that spores were NOT found?

You are very wrong, I'm afraid. Don't you get it yet? Even if the terrorists who just rearranged the Manhattan skyline had no sophisticated delivery system, there are any number of simple of means by which they could do a lot more damage with the anthrax they have than by mailing samples to a handful of individuals. Why haven't they, then? [Puts on thinking cap] Uh, because this is a campaign of intimidation, not the real thing ("1st case of disease now blow away this dust so you see how the real thing flys").

The reality is, there are jars of weaponized anthrax, sufficient to kill every person in the USA, sitting on some terrorist's kitchen self right now. As long as there are planes in the air, trucks on the road, subways, skyscrapers with centralized A/C, shopping malls, indoor sports events, etc., the potential exists for someone to take that anthrax and kill, at minimum, thousands of people. At maximum, in a coordinated attack, the death-toll could easily exceed the devastation at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

A weapon that has killed exactly one person so far can hardly be called a weapon of mass destruction, and it is certainly not comparable to a nuclear ICBM.

There are lots of implications in the use of this bio weapon other then the current death count.
Will the buildings that weapons grade anthrax was released into, ever be truelly safe to work in ?
Will the people who inhaled the weapons grade anthrax in the senate office building have long term health issues ?
What are the long term environmental affects of releasing weapons grade anthrax into heavily populated areas ?