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Article: Iraq, anthrax, and the hawks. (Comment).(war on terrorism, United States)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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It didn't take long for the hawks to seize on the anthrax scare as a justification for the United States to go bomb Iraq.
"By far the likeliest supplier is Saddam Hussein," The Wall Street Journal said in an editorial on Oct. 18.
James Woolsey, former CIA director, wrote almost the exact same thing in the Journal's adjacent guest column.
Richard Butler, the bellicose leader of U.N. inspections in Iraq during the late 1990s, took to the op-ed page of The New York Times the same day to insinuate that Iraq was behind the attacks: "If the scientific path leads to Iraq as the supporter of the anthrax used by the terrorist mailers, no one should be ...