Gee -- so the anthrax killer who terrified the nation for several months after 9/11 turns out to be a U.S. Army scientist from a U.S. Government lab in Maryland. I think the Bush administration has finally found their long sought weapons of mass destruction and lo and behold they were right there in Washington D.C.'s own back yard.
If anyone's memory fails, in 2001 - just a few weeks after Sept. 11th, letters containing anthrax were sent to Democratic Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy and several mainstream media outlets. 22 people were infected and 5 died from their exposure to the highly toxic substance. Subsequently, the anthrax attacks were used as another, in a long list of false jusitifications, by the Bush administration to bully Congress and the American people into supporting their premeditated and pre-9/11 plans to topple their former business partner Saddam Hussein and invade Iraq. Bush himself slyly referred to Iraq plotting to develop anthrax in his 2002 State of the Union address, knowing full well that the terror associated with the attacks was fresh in American memories.
Eventually the inept Bush administration identified a biowarfare defense specialist at Ft. Detrick Maryland named Dr. Stephen Hatfill as their primary suspect in the anthrax mailings. That 5 year bumbling investigation of Hatfill resulted in a June 27, 2008 exoneration of Hatfill by the U.S. government and a payout in the amount of $5.8 million U.S. taxpayer dollars to him.
And now, just a month after the Hatfill exoneration we get news that another military scientist on the government payroll, Bruce E. Ivins was the "real" culprit behind the deadly anthrax mailings. And true to form, as it is with anything involving the Bush regime, turns out Dr. Ivins suspiciously and suddenly died on Tuesday of this week after ingesting "massive" amounts of Tylenol with Codeine. Ivins' colleagues state that he had only recently been informed of his pending prosecution in the infamous anthrax attacks. The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute where Ivins was employed issued a statement about his death oddly with no mention of suicide.
So in the end folks, turns out we'll likely never know the absolute truth about the "other" 2001 terrorist attack on our soil. I'm sure the Bushies are saddened to hear of the unfortunate and untimely passing of Dr. Ivins. No doubt they yearned to know the truth of his actions and motives in the matter and above all wanted justice to be served . . . . and if you believe that, I've got a big, beautiful fucking bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.
Sources (click link):
August 1, 2008 L.A. Times report on Bruce E. Ivins death
Gleen Greenwald analysis of media's role in tying anthrax scare to Iraq
Wikipedia entry on history/timeline of 2001 anthrax attacks
Wikipedia entry on Dr. Stephen Hatfill
----krazee
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