Was this the reason for the rush?

zenblader · 07-13-2004, 9:32 PM

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0406g.asp

I'll state right away that I know nothing about the fff.org I don't know who they are nor is it relevant. The sources of the information about Bio weapons passed to Iraq in the 80's are varied. I've read about this in the past.
Could this have been the real reason that the neo-cons were pushing for war? To cover their asses? If strains of this stuff would have been passed to Syria, Iran, Al Queda, etc and it was used against the U.S., causing military or civilian casualties, then traced back to the batches provided by our idiot government...the **** would fly. It could have set back the neo-cons for decades.

Proto · 07-14-2004, 3:09 AM

Surely BDA has got something to say about this. The silence is deafening ....................

SuperDave · 07-14-2004, 7:39 AM

Nothing, absolutely nothing surprises me anymore. I'm not to the point of 'Dale' on 'King of the Hill' , but I'm close.

If all this is even somewhat true, and I believe it is, it's pretty freakin ironic and pathetic. $100,000,000,000.00

Baketech · 07-14-2004, 8:06 AM

Maybe this can help you get more response....

rocket · 07-16-2004, 5:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Baketech

Maybe this can help you get more response....

Read it. Learn it. Live it.

luvtolean · 07-16-2004, 6:09 PM

The Bush's and Reagan aren't republicans anymore eh? Now they're neo-cons?

I should go dig out my book, written by one of Bill Clinton's policy advisors on the Middle East, and then see what you think. it certainly doesn't line up with this tripe. And it doesn't show much discontinuity from Bush to Clinton to Bush on policy in the region.

I remembered who he is, Dr. Kenneth Pollack

zenblader · 07-16-2004, 8:47 PM

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Originally Posted by luvtolean

The Bush's and Reagan aren't republicans anymore eh? Now they're neo-cons?

I should go dig out my book, written by one of Bill Clinton's policy advisors on the Middle East, and then see what you think. it certainly doesn't line up with this tripe. And it doesn't show much discontinuity from Bush to Clinton to Bush on policy in the region.

I remembered who he is, Dr. Kenneth Pollack

I don't understand your post, LTL. I never called Reagan a neo-con. I proposed that the current batch of neo-cons may have been hot to go to war lest the original stuff Reagan and his boys gave to Iraq turn up in terrorists weapon. I have no idea how Clinton fits into this. Novak is no liberal. Read his words yourself below:

In a September 26, 2002, article entitled “Following Iraq's Bioweapons Trail,” columnist Robert Novak wrote,
An eight-year-old Senate report confirms that disease-producing and poisonous materials were exported, under U.S. government license, to Iraq from 1985 to 1988 during the Iran-Iraq war. Furthermore, the report adds, the American-exported materials were identical to microorganisms destroyed by United Nations inspectors after the Gulf War. The shipments were approved despite allegations that Saddam used biological weapons against Kurdish rebels and (according to the current official U.S. position) initiated war with Iran.