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Thread #52072   Message #824413
Posted By: GUEST,Forum Lurker
12-Nov-02 - 02:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bush, Iraq, and War: PART EIGHT
Subject: RE: BS: Bush, Iraq, and War: PART EIGHT
Again, the issue is not so much whether he HAS is as whether he will USE it. Even without smallpox, biological weapons are extremely dangerous. Pneumonic plague, readily located and cultivated anywhere in the Eastern hemisphere, will kill 1 in 3 if it is antibiotic resistant (a procedure so simple it is done in high school biology), and there are dozens more just like it. What needs to be done is to avoid any reason to use them, namely, not to threaten war before an official response has been given to the U.N. resolution. Anything else is incredibly irresponsible.