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Joe, I don't really give a flying ##$@ what you think about the library thing. You don't have a relative that's been a head librarian for 15 years I DO. !!!! I didn't READ no $%#% about a story about the Gov checking what books are being read. I heard it on the #$@% radio myself Along with millions of other people. And I TOO do not like being called a liar. I never said anything about no conspiracy theory. No matter how you re-arrange what you said to make you fell better about saying it. To me Statements like "I'm not doing anything wrong, They can wiretap me" IS frightfully like "Their not coming for us yet" I don't care what your native country was. You wanna lay out red badges of courage and compare? You see what you wanna see. And about the Rense.com thing. Sorry Joe, Ain't gonna fall for it. Bigfoot? is #$@sht. I don't care if the below did come from Rense. We did send those things to Iraq. Good night and have a nice life. <SNIP> http://www.usasurvival.org/ck1005a02.shtml Part of the Byrd-Rumsfeld exchange was publicized by columnist Robert Novak, who said it appears that Rumsfeld "has not read the sole surviving copy of a May 25, 1994, Senate Banking Committee report." It said that in 1985, five years after the Iraq-Iran war started, and in the succeeding years, disease producing, poisonous and other biological research materials were exported to Iraq, under licensing by the U.S. Department of Commerce. These may have been sent for legitimate medical purposes, to develop vaccines or treatments, but they were provided to Iraq and could have been misused. <SNIP> <SNIP> http://www.newsinsider.org/editorials/ancient_evils.html back in the Reagan dark ages who sold Saddam Hussein anthrax warfare technology in the hopes Iraq would unleash the disease on Iran. <SNIP> http://nuclearno.com/text.asp?4736 Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary and one of the most strident critics of Saddam Hussein, met the Iraqi President in 1983 to ease the way for US companies to sell Baghdad biological and chemical weapons components, including anthrax and bubonic plague cultures, according to newly declassified US Government documents. <SNIP> http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.htm The Senate committee's reports on 'US Chemical and Biological Warfare-Related Dual-Use Exports to Iraq', undertaken in 1992 in the wake of the Gulf war, give the date and destination of all US exports. The reports show, for example, that on May 2, 1986, two batches of bacillus anthracis -- the micro-organism that causes anthrax -- were shipped to the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education, along with two batches of the bacterium clostridium botulinum, the agent that causes deadly botulism poisoning. <SNIP> http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00014.htm In 1969, President Richard Nixon decided to discontinue this program (at least with regard to biological "agents," which are used as weapons, as opposed to "toxins," which were theoretically for researching methods of immunization and therapy). There were two reasons for discontinuing the weapons program: (1) it was counter-productive militarily, as biological weapons were very difficult to control, and (2) the US already had massive superiority in nuclear weapons. Biological weapons were seen as the "poor man's atom bomb" and Nixon wanted to get rid of them to prevent Third World nations from acquiring relatively inexpensive weapons of mass destruction. In accordance with President Nixon's order, the total destruction of antipersonnel biological agents and munitions was completed by May of 1972. [1] It is believed, however, that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) continued to research biological weapons in spite of the President's order. <SNIP> <SNIP> http://www.skeptictank.org/gen1/gen00547.htm Shipping ATCC's products to Iraq required approval by the U.S. Commerce Department during the Reagan administration, Sloan-Breen said. "These shipments were up to the Commerce Department," she said.
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