I realize conspiracy theories aren't respectable,

[nancylebov]

but I think Iraqis could be forgiven for holding them.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/01/anthrax/index.html

Tremendous fishiness around anthrax. If it *wasn't* a top US scientist, what are they covering up?

Link thanks to james_nicoll. Weirdness because I honestly don't know how to deal with this.

Comments

[avram]

I think we need to either rehabilitate the word "conspiracy", or find a new word to describe the collusion of criminals.

[madfilkentist]

I did a web search on "bentonite." It's a common mineral, used in kitty litter, among other things. That doesn't square with anyone's claiming it was a signature chemical for Saddam Hussein, does it?

[avram]

Kitty litter, acne medication, fireworks, cement, drilling mud for oil wells. And the US is the world's number-one producer of the stuff.

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

The only news to me is that the suspect is dead, presumably by suicide. While some news may have spun the attacks as foreign, especially at first, a least one book is out on the topic that makes it clear that the culprit was from the USA. For years, I've been saying, no, that was a home-grown looney, like the Tylenol poisoning years further back. I thought everyone knew that.

I don't think the US gvmt was involved at all, though. Agents were really trying to pin the crime on someone & everyone just seemed baffled. The prime suspect certainly was weird, and I wasn't convinced by what I read either that he had done it or that he hadn't.

The article you link to seems off, to me, in saying that without the anthrax killings, 9/11 would not have been enough to put us in our currently besieged, bellicose condition. I think it was the icing on the cake.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I see your points, but they leave out how such false information was given to the media. That doesn't sound like mere thrashing around looking for a suspect.

I can believe the US would have become warlike as a result of 9/11, but accusing Iraq made that war more likely.