The attack on Iraq: will the US make covert use of bioweapons?
Watcher | 10.08.2002 14:56
We know that the US and Russia are the world centres of research on biowarfare. The recent anthrax attacks in the US, warn us that there are rogue elements with access to the key laboratories.
I have been having a little nightmare thought
In the event of a War on Iraq, might elements of the US armed forces not wish to unleash some sort of bioweapon (anthrax, smallpox, ebola ???) which could conveniently be blamed on the Iraqis, and thus become part of the retrospective casus belli for the war?
Let us go one step further on the lefty conspiracy theory paranoia road: there are right-wing environmentalists who have been arguing for a while that saving the planet means killing off all the poor folk (esp. those black, brown, or yellow) who are "overpopulating" it. The G8 have started re-inocculating their populations against small pox; among poor nations, the WHO has decided the disease is "extinct" and has stopped running immunization programmes.
One step further, perhaps the Israelis (who have their own biowarfare capacity) might find it convenient to set off a little epidemic die- off among their nearby enemies? (a way to rebalance the demography of the region)
In the event of a War on Iraq, might elements of the US armed forces not wish to unleash some sort of bioweapon (anthrax, smallpox, ebola ???) which could conveniently be blamed on the Iraqis, and thus become part of the retrospective casus belli for the war?
Let us go one step further on the lefty conspiracy theory paranoia road: there are right-wing environmentalists who have been arguing for a while that saving the planet means killing off all the poor folk (esp. those black, brown, or yellow) who are "overpopulating" it. The G8 have started re-inocculating their populations against small pox; among poor nations, the WHO has decided the disease is "extinct" and has stopped running immunization programmes.
One step further, perhaps the Israelis (who have their own biowarfare capacity) might find it convenient to set off a little epidemic die- off among their nearby enemies? (a way to rebalance the demography of the region)
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