Which is why labels like "liberal" and "conservative" are bunk. Lately, the so-called conservatives are the ones trying to rewrite our Constitution, not the so-called "liberals."

You didn't hear about people dying of the smallpox vaccine when it was in wide use for the same reason you rarely hear about the kids that die (a couple dozen a year) from routine vaccinations -- the dangers of NOT getting those vaccine are worse.

Troll, the vaccine is effective almost immediately -- in fact, it can be used to treat the disease up to 4 days after exposure. A tricky concept; smallpox symptoms usually don't show up for 7-10 days.

I agree that smallpox is a biological weapon that should be closely monitored and inspected. INCLUDING the biological labs active in the US that are manufacturing -- er, "studying" it. Remember, the last death from small pox (in 1978) was from laboratory exposure. It's pervasive, easily spread, and very hard to kill. Unlike anthrax, an aerosol can of smallpox on a subway could actually be effective in starting a wide outbreak. If smallpox was revived in the wild, I'd probably be in the vaccine line real quick.

But I think any rumors (and it is a rumor, not a verified fact) about what Iraq does and does not have right now should be treated with skepticism while the US Government is spending millions in PR dollars to convince the American public how bad Iraq is.