Was Iraq Framed by a US lab and ABC?

[mindstalk]

Remember the anthrax attacks? James links to a news article that a US anthrax researcher has committed suicide, right before he was about to be charged in the attacks. After a wikipedia article, James links to a Salon piece which goes back to the time of the attacks, how the letters in the attacks tried to implicate Muslims, and the false reports of bentonite linking the letters to Iraq, fabricated reports in which ABC played a key roll. Regardless of whether the highly Christian Ivins was personally responsible, the US government is now saying a US government lab was responsible -- so a US lab contributed to the climate of fear post 9/11, and falsely linked it to Islam in general and Iraq in general, thus helping create the attitudes that made invading and destabilizing another country, resulting in tens of thousands of prevantable deaths, seem reasonable.

Me, I'd thought that was obvious it was an inside job, given how the envelopes targetted Democratic politicians and "liberal media" figures, but I hadn't thought about it for a while, nor known of ABC's role.

Welcome to the US! Even our Reichstags are privatized.

Comments

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I'm used to the people who laugh being on the left, and those who most earnestly invoke "to prevent tyranny" including those who listen to Rush and O'Reilly.

Nice 1984 ref.

[juvenile-philos.livejournal.com]

You may find my political views somewhat incongruous with typical left/right divisions.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but we weren't talking about you, we were talking about the laughers. :)