Remember This?

Ahh the good old days. This little artifact of propaganda seems so quaint compared to today's multimedia blitzes. Personally, I always look for the following:

• To our single friend
• Sweepstakes Winner! Your Caribbean Vacation
• Discover Card Free Gift

This really was an ingenious way to scare the shit out of everyone and simultaneously deputize us in the War Against Terror. Too bad THEY STILL HAVEN'T CAUGHT THE GUY!

Add that to the list of Bush's non-accomplishments. Interestingly enough I stumbled across a rather conspiratorial toned article from a reputable news source. (BBC) It must have come out while we were still in our bombshelters eating pickled spam. Mmm... here's a taste-

"A Newsnight investigation raised the possibility that there was a secret CIA project to investigate methods of sending anthrax through the mail which went madly out of control. ...

The New York Times claimed last December ---- was the author in 1998 of a secret paper study on the possible effects of anthrax sent through the mail, although ---- now denies that."

The woman who filed that report is Susan Watts. She was also on familiar terms with David Kelly, the man who said that the British government "sexed up" it's so called dossier on Saddam's WMD. He ended up committing suicide as a result of the fallout from the controversy.

"A biologist by training, Kelly was officially the head of microbiology at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down, a government chemical- and biological-weapons research center, where he had worked since 1984" (The New Yorker)

In point of fact there is absolutely no evidence of any linkage of the two events. But the six degrees of separation factor does make for an intriguing parlor game.