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If Iraq was behind this, working through the al Queda cells or not, I hope they realize that not only will an anthrax or smallpox attack be minimized but also the retaliation would not be survivable.

Unfortunately, there may not be many people in the loop, and they are all likely people we were planning to kill anyway. The problem is, Saddam can only die once. That's what makes the threat of massive retaliation by Saddam's sleepers credible -- that plus his prior history of vengeful, wanton destruction, as evidenced in the fires of Kuwait and the rubble of the WTC. That is why this is effectively a Mutual Assured Destruction situation. There is really nothing very complicated about this, conceptually. If Saddam had nukes on ICBMs that could hit America, we'd be powerless to remove him. Well, THIS ANTHRAX (® Saddam Hussein, 2001) plus "human missiles" of the Mohammed Atta variety amount to the same thing as nuclear-tipped ICBMs, from a strategic standpoint. It's just that people here seem to be a little slow off the mark figuring that out.