Posted on 05/19/2002 8:31:28 PM PDT by abigkahuna
My thought, as well.
"Iraq may have unleashed the West Nile Virus in the United States via Cuba through the release of migratory birds infected with the virus..."
Thus, the article's initial premise is not credible. That's not to say Iraq, or even Cuba, isn't involved. But the migratory methodology was almost certainly not employed.
So we should let them experiment on us or ignore the capacity and authority of Cuba in causing the West Nile virus crisis? When is America going to grow a spine indeed. This is not just trade give or take deal. There is no such thing as a market value for inalienable sovereignty.
So the burden of proof lays on those who are seeing a death threat on America? or should it be on those who see nothing wrong? This is the way Challenger blew up by the way, because the engineer in question could not prove that it was going to blow up.
I haven't discounted the involvement of Iraq (or Cuba) in the WNV outbreak a whit.
On the other hand, it appears this particular article's premise (the use of migratory birds to spread the virus from Cuba to the U.S.) is clearly mistaken.
If they did it, they did it some other way. O.K.?
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