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Note: On Saturday, 9-28-2002, over 350,000 people in London protested
against the US war plans against Iraq and Middle East.
www.truthtout.com
http://www.truthout.com/docs_02/09.30A.byrd.wmd.htm
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Will the U.S. Reap What it has Sown? Byrd Asks
By Paul J. Nyden
West Virginia Gazette
Friday, 27 September, 2002
Will Saddam Hussein unleash botulinum toxin, perhaps nature's deadliest
poison, and other viruses and chemicals if the United States attacks Iraq?
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., posed this question to the Senate on
Thursday, based on documents obtained from different federal agencies.
"We have a paper trail," Byrd said. "We not only know that Iraq has
biological weapons, we know the type, the strain, and the batch number of
the germs that may have been used to fashion those weapons. We know the
dates they were shipped and the addresses to which they were shipped.
"We have in our hands the equivalent of a Betty Crocker cookbook of
ingredients that the U.S. allowed Iraq to obtain and that may well have
been used to concoct biological weapons."
Those shipments included:
Between 1985 and 1988, the nonprofit American Type Culture Collection made
11 shipments to Iraq that included a "witches' brew of pathogens,"
including anthrax, botulinum toxin and gangrene. All shipments were
government-approved.
Between January 1980 and October 1993, the federal Centers for Disease
Control shipped a variety of toxic specimens to Iraq, including West Nile
virus and Dengue fever.
The U.S. Commerce Department and CDC provided lists of these shipments.
"The Defense Department ought to have the same lists, so that the
decision-makers will know exactly what types of biological agents American
soldiers may face in the field," Byrd said.
"At last week's Armed Services Committee hearing, Secretary [Donald]
Rumsfeld said he had no knowledge of any such shipments and doubted that
they ever occurred. He seemed to be affronted at the very idea that the
United States would ever countenance entering into such a deal with the
devil.
"Secretary Rumsfeld should not shy away from this information. On the
contrary, he should seek it out," Byrd said.
In its Sept. 23 edition, Newsweek magazine published an article discussing
the viruses, poisons and gases that the U.S. sent to Saddam Hussein in the
mid-1980s. At that time, the U.S. regarded Iraq as a potential ally against
Iran's Ayatollah Khomeni.
Byrd criticized Rumsfeld for failing to answer questions he asked last week
about these shipments to Iraq during an Armed Services Committee hearing.
"I repeat today what I said to him then," Byrd said. "In the event of a war
with Iraq, might the United States be facing the possibility of reaping
what it has sown?"
Calls to the White House press office on Thursday afternoon were referred
to the Department of Defense, where no one returned a call. One woman at
the White House asked, "How do you spell Byrd?"
Federal documents and a United Nations Security Council report document a
direct connection between periods when Iraq received toxins and viruses
from the U.S. and the periods when Iraq developed biological weapons.
Byrd closed his speech by asking what the future holds. "The role that the
U.S. may have played in helping Iraq to pursue biological warfare in the
1980s should serve as a strong warning to the president that policy
decisions regarding Iraq today could have far reaching ramifications on the
Middle East and on the United States in the future.
"In the 1980s, the Ayatollah Khomeni was America's sworn enemy, and the
U.S. government courted Saddam Hussein in an effort to undermine the
Ayatollah and Iran. Today, Saddam Hussein is America's biggest enemy, and
the U.S. is said to be making overtures to Iran."
The Bush administration is also discussing whether to arm groups of ethnic
dissidents, such as the Kurds, in Iraq.
"Could the U.S. be laying the groundwork for a brutal civil war in Iraq?
Could this proposed policy change precipitate a deadly border conflict
between the Kurds and Turkey?" Byrd asked.
He again urged caution. "Decisions involving war and peace," he said,
"should never be rushed or muscled through in haste. Our founding fathers
understood that, and wisely vested in the Congress, not the president, the
power to declare war."
Byrd said Congress must consider Bush's requests for new war powers
"carefully, thoroughly, and on our own timetable ... and avoid the pressure
to rush to judgment on such an important matter."
(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is
distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in
receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.)
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