>Subject: RE: Anthrax mysteries RE: More enduring >lies
> Re: Bioport> The magazine of the John Birch >Society has for
>yrs. been running hit pieces on that firm ;-)
Of course, because it was Democrats in charge at the time. One line of right-wing thought went like this: if the troops refused en masse to receive the anthrax vaccine, it just goes to show how discipline in the ranks under Clinton has declined to the point of open rebellion. I remember what the Army's goddamned typhoid vaccine did to me; made me feel like I had a minor case of typhoid for two days.
> Have fun! The Far Right has had a major campaign >these last few yrs.
(before 9-11) about the anthrax >vaccine & the US military. Michael
Pugliese
There are at least two stories here: one, that dirty deals were used to set up BioPort as the sole supplier of the vaccine when it didn't have the ability to produce either a safe vaccine or to produce it in sufficient quantities. The cost overruns and problems with accounting are scandals in themselves.
The second possible story is simply going with the ones the Bush caudillo are running with. Al Qaeda had anthrax and used in the US. O.K. So explain how they got it. One possible explanation would be it came from labs in Saudi Arabia, not Iraq. Afterall, the 9-11 perps deployed from the near ME, with a lot of passports issued in Jeddah, not Afghanistan.
Of course conspiracy theories serve the establishment. The ones that become most popular never explain the real phenomena. Right now I'm sure the Bushites are pleased by off the wall theories of industrial espionage since it obscures the military and intelligence blundering of the establishment that enriches their portfolios and gives them a reason to exist.
Charles Jannuzi