It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards
now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing
for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times,
but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread.
Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.
Breaking News: U.S. Provided Iraq With Anthrax,Other Germs in 1980s
Iraq Admitted To Building Weapons With American Germs
Talk about turning the tables!
Reuters reports that Senator Robert Byrd has entered documents into the Congressional Record that prove that the American Centers for Disease Control and the American Type Culture Collection sent samples of the germs that cause anthrax, botulism and gangrene.
Iraq admitted to using these samples to construct biological weapons (that's weapons of mass destruction) during the 1980s.These documents are available online at
FAS.org.
The United States also provided samples of the West Nile Virus to Iraq during this period, when George Bush Senior was Vice President.
Some of these samples were sent directly to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission "and other agencies involved in Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs," according to the Reuters article. Others were sent straight to the complex at al-Muthanna, which the United States government knew was involved in producing weapons of mass destruction.
In the words of Senator Byrd, "Are we, in fact, now facing the possibility of reaping what we have sown?"
Find out more about the effort to resist a new war against Iraq at
Magniloquence Against War
Posted by J. Clifford Cook at 7:29 PM.
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