Who knows, maybe Ivins even did it? Of course, now that he is conveniently dead, we will never know why or who else might have been involved.
Why did the U.S. invade Iraq again? We know now, clearly, that the WMD excuse was a sham, a piece of pure propaganda created to frighten Americans into supporting an invasion of Iraq. We know that George Bush used the bogus Italian Letter that purported to prove that Saddam Hussein was trying to obtain Yellow cake Uranium, a precursor which could, with great effort, possibly be refined to use in an atomic bomb to justify the invasion. We know that the White House Iraq Group was set up specifically to coordinate all the lies and propaganda in order to justify the invasion of Iraq.
We know from Paul O'Neill that the invasion of Iraq was a key element of discussion in the White House Security meetings beginning days after the Bush administration was inaugurated in January 2001.
We know that 9/11 was planned and conducted by al Qaeda out of his hideout in Afghanistan, and that al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden had no tactical connection with Saddam Hussein or Iraq. Yet we also know that the Bush administration's first reaction after 9/11 was to use the attack to justify an invasion of Iraq. After 9/11 the Bush White House used every possible method to derail any effective investigation into what events led to the 9/11 attacks, including placing a high-ranking Republican White House staffer, Philip Zelikow, into the job of Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission where he could control what information was released.
What we forget is that after 9/11 the thing that really solidified the fear the American public had was the Anthrax attacks on American officials only a few days after the 9/11 tragedy. What caused those anthrax attacks? Look at this point Glenn Greenwald made yesterday:
If the now-deceased Ivins really was the culprit behind the attacks, then that means that the anthrax came from a U.S. Government lab, sent by a top U.S. Army scientist at Ft. Detrick. Without resort to any speculation or inferences at all, it is hard to overstate the significance of that fact. From the beginning, there was a clear intent on the part of the anthrax attacker to create a link between the anthrax attacks and both Islamic radicals and the 9/11 attacks.There is a clear pattern of the Bush administration using every possible element of the U.S. government to bring about their long desired invasion of Iraq.I find it highly suspicious that at first the FBI was releasing very inflammatory statements about Steven Hatfill as a "person of interest" only to have to withdraw them, apologize and pay him $5.8 million because he clearly was not the culprit. Then when the frame didn't work and a new FBI management took over the case, they focused in on Bruce E. Ivins, who very conveniently "committed suicide" before every being able to defend himself against the charges that he committed the crime.
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Is Bruce Ivin's death and the public charges made - only after his death - to blame him for the Anthrax Attacks another part of the great Bush administration "shredding party" that is currently taking place to eliminate as much evidence of the criminal misdeeds conducted by Cheney and his group of thugs in Bush's name?
If so, expect to find some of the individuals who took the action covered by strange, mostly unexplained Presidential Pardons issued in Bush's last few days in office. There will be so many other similar pardons that isolating these will be difficult if not impossible.
I rarely indulge in conspiracy theories, but it has been obvious that the Bush administration, driven by Cheney, the Neocons, and others, wanted the Iraq invasion in the worst way from day one. The evidence that they did everything possible to push American into the invasion of Iraq is clear, and each day grows stronger. Since the initial invasion and its incompetent occupation the last six years have consisted primarily of secrecy and efforts to cover up and obfuscate the evidence of their culpability in propaganda, lies and misdirection the Bush Mayberry Machiavellis used to get their way.
In this environment, there seems to be nothing the Cheney thugs would not do first to get their way and after its failure, to stay out of prison and keep their wealth.
Go read all of Glenn Greenwald's article for a less speculative view of what has happened.
Addendum 10:24 AM CDT
OK. This morning there has been a lot of talk about how Ivins has been mentally unstable since College. Consider the source of all this talk - it's the FBI or other elements of the Bush government. The breathless news reporters write those "reports" down and report them as true.
But if an Intelligence Analyst were to evaluate the history of reliability of the Bush administration, then they would immediately recognize that the Bush administration cannot be trusted to honestly present the time of day or the nature of the weather we can see both see right outside the window. Their history of preventing NASA scientists from reporting their findings on Global Warming provides only one example of reasons to distrust anything they say.
As for the FBI itself, it screwed up badly with Steven Hatfill as the $5.8 million settlement (our tax money, by the way) they gave him demonstrates. They are desperate to be able to show they have "solved" the Anthrax attacks. If they are discernibly more honest than George Bush, Dick Cheney or Alberto Gonzalez it would be hard to say why one should believe that.
The only counter argument the reporters have reported is that Ivin's lawyer claims he was completely innocent. The fact that this supposedly "mentally unstable individual" had a top security clearance for the last 18 years makes the stories of his mental instable highly questionable.
Right now the most reliable data we have is that Dr. Ivins is dead, that he was a coworker of the previously wrongly indicated possible suspect, Steven Hatfill, at Fort Detrick working on Anthrax, and that there is a big propaganda effort currently going on to try to blame him for the Anthrax attack and get the FBI and the Bush administration off the hook for not getting results in the last seven years. We can't trust the sources for anything else at this time.
Oh, and we do know that the Bush administration admits that the U.S. Army itself was the source of the anthrax that killed or injured several people right after 9/11. Since this is not favorable information for the Bush administration to offer, the poor reliability record of the Bush administration is less of a reason to believe them. Glenn Greenwald has gone into this.
Addendum II 11:30 am CDT
Laura Rozen at War and Piece offers links to several stories on Bruce Ivins.
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