[MadIvan]

And I still ride the Tube nearly every day. Right, I'm getting a gas mask just in case.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Happygal]

Right, I'm getting a gas mask just in case.

Won't you look rather funny? Suit, briefcase, gas mask?

[areafiftyone]

Believe me right after Sept. 11th everyone in NYC was buying gas masks. I even order two expensive ones for my boss and his wife. He asked me if I wanted one and I told him no and here is why: The problem with them is when you buy them you have to be wearing them when the attack happens. How many people are going to walk around with a gas masks on. They are a waste of money unless you walk out of your house wearing one. By the time you put it on you will already be dead from the cyanide gas. Horrible thought but true. Looks like our British brothers and sisters are going to be bombarded with threats every 3 or 4 months just like we are. All you can do is be alert and pray nothing happens unless you convert to Islam and then you will be safe and sound </sarcasm>. That's the latest threat for NY and Washington. Wonder what is next?

[Mr. Silverback]

And I still ride the Tube nearly every day. Right, I'm getting a gas mask just in case.

Good. Wear it in continued good health. Thhe stuff in this story scares the stuffing out of me and I'mm 6,000 miles from the Tube!

[The Great Satan]

Good article. If Bush kills Saddam tomorrow, you can kiss every major city on the East Coast and in Western Europe goodbye. That's what's the anthrax letters mean -- that's the significance of the samples in those envelopes. Saddam has the keys to the kingdom, and Bush knows it. That's why we've been getting the run around on the anthrax -- all that laughable "rogue scientist" crap, the absurd "Amerithrax" Potemkin Village investigation, etc. That's why Bush has been doing the plantation shuffle on going after Saddam. In war, the advantage is usually with the aggressor (think 1939). Saddam has the initiative here: he struck first, and his back-end security is tight as duck's wotsit ("WE HAVE THIS ANTHRAX YOU CAN NOT STOP US"). Better get used to it, because it will be years before we're out of this hole. Thank you, Bill Clinton.

[backhoe]

Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare- Survival Skills, Pt. II

[David Hunter]

I am disgusted at the fact that our military will have to cover for our firefighters AGAIN, should the latter go on strike for 8 days as they are planning to on Friday. The armed forces should be allowed to concentrate on defending Britain from Bin Laden's psychotics and preparing to sort out Iraq, they shouldn't be putting out house fires because of a bunch of left-wing trade unionist scumbags.

What if al Qaeda attacked during the next firefighters' strike? We would be screwed. If the firefighters' union won't accept a reasonable pay offer and thinks it can hold the country over a barrel like this at a time of crisis, then I think the union bosses are worse enemies of Britain than al Qaeda.

[David Hunter]

Unless there's a breakthrough in the next 20 hours the Firemen are going out on strike again for 8 days from 6PM on Friday. I wonder if Osama's psychos are planning to take advantage of the chaos that is likely to ensue considering that almost 40% of the calls for the fire brigade, (in my own region during the last strike), were hoaxes. Those hoaxers deserve to be shot.