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SADDAM GROWING ‘SUPER SMALLPOX'
New York Post ^
| December 8, 2002
| By NILES LATHEM
Posted on 12/08/2002 2:32:30 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:10:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON - Iraq is developing a vaccine-resistant smallpox virus, a nerve gas that can penetrate protective gear and may be just months away from becoming a nuclear power.
Those are the disturbing highlights of numerous dossiers compiled over the last decade by the CIA, British intelligence services, former U.N. arms inspectors and prominent arms-control think tanks that will be used in the coming weeks to counter Iraq's defiant claim that it no longer has weapons of mass destruction.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraq; saddamhussein; smallpox
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To: Jim Robinson
IMHO... Bush will order the attack Monday night.
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posted on
12/08/2002 2:37:00 AM PST
by
johnny7
To: johnny7
I just finished reading The Demon In The Freezer, a true story about smallpox, anthrax and ebola. It is VERY easy too change smallpox so it is vacine resistant, a fact also discussed on CNN yesterday.
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posted on
12/08/2002 3:50:32 AM PST
by
Peach
To: johnny7
IMHO... Bush will order the attack Monday night.While doing so is justified, I doubt he'll move that quickly. George W. wants everyone to see we've gone the extra mile in allowing Saddam to declare what he has AND to give the UN inspectors time to demonstrate that Saddam is hiding WMD. Perhaps we'll attack around January 1st.
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posted on
12/08/2002 5:31:22 AM PST
by
toddst
To: toddst
If smallpox is unleashed in the world, and there are mass infectins, americans will suffer for sure, but I am certain that the ravages of the disease will be much harder on the people of the middle east...at least we have the resources and skills to deal with and hopefully control the outbreak...third world countries will be decimated.
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posted on
12/08/2002 5:43:53 AM PST
by
freeper12
To: Jim Robinson
Let me play devil's advocate: how do all these recent revelations differ from what would be claimed if the government was making up stories to justify a settled policy? How do we suddenly know such things when Iraq has been so hard to penetrate, to date?
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posted on
12/08/2002 5:45:57 AM PST
by
Grut
To: toddst
The Iraq solution!
To: Jim Robinson
Am I insane? Iraq is within months of acquiring nuclear and biological weapons of mass destruction. For all practical purposes that means that Iraq may very well have those weapons NOW! And we're dithering about diplomatic niceties?
Folks, this is life and death.
When do we, for Gods' sake, roll?!
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posted on
12/08/2002 6:00:01 AM PST
by
ricpic
To: Jim Robinson
There is an easy solution to the problem of people not believing the information being disseminated by Mr. Bush.
Turn over the location of the not so secret labs and storehouses to the arms inspectors, they will in turn disclose the evidence of Saddams WMD, and some of us will no longer see the proposed war with Iraq as just our Presidents way of correcting his fathers error.
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posted on
12/08/2002 6:07:27 AM PST
by
R. Scott
To: ricpic
THis is svary stuff. My question is why in the hell do the people in the UN want to let the Iraq regime get away with this. If it is true the Iraqs have small pox, it will affect the whole world, not just the US.
If this doesn't prove the UN is a waste of time and money, nothing does. Thank GOD, our President is not an idiot like ALGORE!! We need tough people like Rumsfeld and Bush.
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posted on
12/08/2002 6:10:26 AM PST
by
Maxy
To: Commiewatcher; conspiratoristo; dubyaismypresident; dr.j'sfirst; GOP_Lady; MissTargets; Pontiac; ...
Ping!
(Thought you all would like to be pinged on this one!)
To: Grut
"How do we suddenly know such things when Iraq has been so hard to penetrate, to date?" Why do you say Iraq's been hard to penetrate? We've been interviewing Iraq's scientists and taking photographs of everything moving in Iraq for years.
I think Iraq is a pretty open book, and has been for years. What's changed is that neither Bush nor Blair will ignore the facts.
To: Las Vegas Dave
Most of this stuff is known already--but not the resistant strain(s) of smallpox.
Get Saddam outta there before he kills millions of Americans, Israelis and anyone else who happens to get in his way.
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posted on
12/08/2002 7:09:40 AM PST
by
Catspaw
To: Jim Robinson; Tennessee_Bob; Orual; aculeus; general_re; BlueLancer; tet68
Tsk, tsk. This is just a diversion from the *real* story, that our cruel sanctions kill 6,819 infants, puppies, and kittens per day.
;-)
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posted on
12/08/2002 7:17:27 AM PST
by
dighton
To: Jim Robinson
It would be so easy for Saddam's agents to slip the super small pox across our porous borders wouldn't it? Expect martial law when that happens and total economic collapse.
To: johnny7
To: Eternal_Bear
Remember, "Dark Winter" theorizes that ONE THIRD of all
persons exposed will DIE.
Imagine if you will, 15 or perhaps 20 thousand dead in each
of our major cities, and similar amounts scattered throughout the nation. Perhaps civil order can be maintained, perhaps not.
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posted on
12/08/2002 7:28:32 AM PST
by
tet68
To: dighton
NO! Not the kittens!!!
Well, actually, if you read this storyline, killing kittens isn't such a bad thing. Book Five, Chapter Nineteen, Bun-bun's Theater of Horrors.
To: dighton
We all know Saddam can't have these weapons, he's spending every penny to build children's hospitals that are virtual
palaces.
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posted on
12/08/2002 7:31:11 AM PST
by
tet68
To: Jim Robinson
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure...
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