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Current Events » in reply to re: Some of Our 1%

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...sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992, as well as germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia. Other bacteria sold included brucella melitensis, which damages major organs, and clostridium perfringens, which causes gas gangrene.

This is highly misleading.

If you look at the details, including materials and descriptions of the destinations, these things were not sent for weapons purposes, unless it was to develop vaccines or defenses. That Iraq weaponized everything it got shows nothing except that the vast trust the antiwar people seem to have for Saddam's motives and methods might be a bit misplaced.

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