Our Leaders Are Nuts

[chlamor]

Who's the Real WMD Threat?
How the Bush administration's biological weapons buildup affects you

Heather Wokusch, Antiwar.com

April 15, 2005

News that a U.S. company recently sent vials of a 1957 pandemic flu strain to laboratories across the world < http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&ncid=716
&e=6&u=/ap/20050413/ap_on_he_me/pandemic_flu_labs ... > by accident is only the latest outrage from the billion-dollar boondoggle called the federal biological weapons program.

Our leaders are nuts.


A U.S. Army scientist in Maryland is currently trying to bring back elements of the 1918 Spanish flu < http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2004/03/02_400.html
>, a virus that killed 40 million people. And a virologist in St. Louis has been working on a more lethal form of mousepox (related to smallpox) – just to try stopping the virus once it has been created.

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Put bluntly, the increasing number of stateside bio-weapons blunders should come as no surprise. In February 2003, for example, the University of California at Davis (UCD) took a full 10 days to inform nearby communities that a rhesus monkey had escaped from its primate-breeding facility. Coincidentally, UCD had been vying for government funds to set up its own "hot zone" bio-defense lab that could use primates for biological weapons testing. If that monkey had been infected with ebola or some other virus, it's unclear when or if the public would have been informed.

At roughly the same time that the monkey ditched UCD, the Pentagon unearthed over 2,000 tons of hazardous biological waste in Maryland, much of it undocumented leftovers of an abandoned germ warfare program. Nearby, the FBI was draining a pond for clues into 2001's anthrax attacks.

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[TahitiNut]

1. I take offense at the association. It demeans nuts.

:grr:

[knowbody0]

2. no doubt

im certified dont ya know

[FreedomAngel82]

3. A lot of people

probably think I am as well. Ugh. This is so gross. I'm still waiting for Rod Serling to pop out of nowhere or Ashton Kutcher to pop out and say we've been punked.

[chlamor]

4. How About

Demented, psycopathic, pathological, avaricious, murderous bastards with their hands on the buttons and eager to destroy everything in sight.

[leftchick]

5. that about sums it up.

I can't help but think they are really trying to kill off the serfs.

[chlamor]

6. Predators

[TahitiNut]

7. That works.

I take pride in being a nut ... just one of the "fruits and nuts" that makes the world (and California, when I lived there) interesting and fun. :silly:

When I first heard the fascist right wing refer to the "fruits and nuts" in California, I aspired to become one ... and now I are. :dunce: