Anthrax Attack

We had a small dinner party tonight, some close friends and a couple I used to work with off and on.  It’s funny how people can change, I haven’t seen them in a while.

The other couple left early and we sat around having a little wine and talking.  Wow they are totally hard core now.  Maybe it’s just my memory of them that’s skewed, they always could have been.  They are hard core Obama, say the wrong thing and oh man, hold on tight.

Last night there was some old man causing a scene as we began to leave.  He was yelling shut up shut up at some lady.  “I’m tired of everyone blaming Bush.”  That’s all I heard.

People are so polarized.  But I digress we’re talking about tonight, and somehow the Anthrax attack came out.  I am all for bashing on Bush, but lets get real for just a second.  This one is a pretty good target for conspiracy, it has all the makings of a good one, but lets take a look at without the fervor.

The main cases for it being a conspiracy are:

Both  Tom Daschle and  Patrick Leahy had the heat on the Bush government.  -TRUE that’s a big jump though.

NBC was asking a lot of tough questions.  -TRUE another big jump.

The Anthrax was made at Fort Detrick.  -FALSE, sort of.  There is a lot of conflicting information.  Part of this comes from the discussion of the weaponized quality of the product. Ed Lake operates the web site anthraxinvestigation.com and he’s pretty much got the best information regarding the mis/dis-information of this subject.

What seems clear is that the Anthrax “STRAIN” originated at Fort Detrick and this lead to the investigations of the “persons of interest”.  This is essentially a cold case now.

Now my friends take this list as proof that “…well something fishy is going on.”  Yep.  I’m pretty much going to have to throw down the Ron Paul take on this.  There is most assuredly a cover-up happening.  A cover-up of just how inept our government and it’s increasing bloat is.  The most likely scenarios are:

A) Somehow a couple or one really pissed of scientist was allowed to walk out of a secure facility with some really nasty Anthrax.  WOOPS!

B) We and by that I mean some dumass calling the shots in Washington gave Saddam the strain, him and it’s suggested possibly the Syrians worked on it and came up with the powder then either used it, sold it, or gave it away.

This is the point I pull out the secret weapon in the Bullshit wars, Ockham's razor.

I’m leaning towards A) here.  We’re basically in a national panic at this time, and really it would have gone badly if they just came out and said, ah yah I think we let this stuff slip past us there, sorry.

This case is still Officially open.  The last thing I’ve heard with any credibility on this is that on Sept 4, 2007 Senator Patrick Leahy states in an interview with Vermont blog Vermont Daily Briefing that he is unsatisfied with the progress of the investigation and that he believes that some government officials may know more about the source of the Anthrax than has been disclosed "I think there are people within our government — certainly from the source of it — who know where it came from.

March Fox ran a story about an email.  Frankly who cares, Fox news is about as worth while as a fortune cookie.