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Vital Unresolved Anthrax Questions and ABC News
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... linking Saddam to 9/11 ready for publication at the AEI on September 13 ) expressly claimed in November, 2001 that “there is also tremendous evidence that subsequent anthrax attacks are connected to Iraq” and ...
The Patsy
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... overlooked and under-funded field of vitally important research that led to the persecution of Hatfill. Today, the same theory is being trotted out to finger Ivins. This concept of the anthrax killers' motive drops the entire context of the postal terrorism that put the nation in a post-9/11 panic and energized the march to war with Iraq. As Glenn Greenwald and others have pointed out, the anthrax attacks were used by administration officials and neoconservative commentators to make the case for war: administration officials and ...
Mass Destruction or Mass Distraction?
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... The habit of classifying them along with nuclear missiles as "weapons of mass destruction" is misleading and may even have been a propaganda ploy to make the American people more fearful and therefore more willing to go along with whatever expensive programs, irrelevant attacks, or limitations on freedom the government initiates as alleged counters to the alleged threats. It is certainly the case that the anthrax attacks of 2001 became a key psychological component of the buildup to the Iraq war . Vice President Cheney and others pushed the story ...
