Forgotten: US Suffers Terrorist WMD Attack— Republicans Do Nothing.

[The Whiskey Priest]

Less than three weeks after 9-11, while the Republicans were building fantasy WMDs, the United States of America was attacked by (a) Terrorist. Using the United States Post Office Ames strain weapons grade anthrax was delivered to several targets in the US. The country suffered real disruption and death as the Republicans began to fabricate the story of mushroom clouds and drone airplanes that Hussein would fictionally use to deliver death to American cities.

The press went into a fevered frenzy for six or so weeks over the real, honest-to-goodness biological attack…then slowly the story faded as the Republicans took the country off into never-never land of storybook threats poised by Iraq. Soon the story was gone—it had been disregarded long before by the Republicans and now we find that they are giving up the hunt for the Terrorist that perpetrated the only WMD and Biological attack to ever occur in the US.

The Terrorist is still-at-large and for all we know is still in possession of high-grade anthrax. Yet, all we hear from the Republicans is Iraq, Iraq, and more Iraq. One must wonder why there is so little interest in an actual attack and so much interest in a work of fiction.

Basis of the screed is an article for Mother Jones by Tom Englehardt