[Clinton's a rapist]

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.

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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.

Nonsense. We do not have evidence that Iraq has the technology to make anthrax small enough to be useful as a weapon or the ability to transform the naturally sticky condition into a dry powder necessary for effective disbursement.

In fact, Iraqi attempts to use anthrax against the Kurds in their own country has repeatedly met with failure, because of their inability to deliver the spores effectively.

Secondly, Iraq does not possess the highly specialized equipment necessary to disperse anthrax effectively. Even if they did, they’d have to deliver these specially outfitted planes to America (how would they accomplish that? stick them up their ass like a bag of heroin?), and deploy them unnoticed over a large city without getting shot down.

In addition, anthrax is not fatal in small doses. Around 10,000 spores are needed to cause a lung infection, which is quite treatable with anti-biotics.

Even in the highly unlikely event that they were able to overcome all these obstacles, they’d need absolutely perfectly conducive weather, with just the right concentrations of temperature, humidity, and wind conditions to succeed with this plot.

My point is merely that fear of anthrax is not a sufficient reason to hold back on an attack on Iraq.