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U.S. Army To Ramp Up Anthrax Purchasing
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist reports that the U.S. Army wants to purchase a large supply of an anthrax strain." From the article: "A series of contracts have been uncovered that relate to the US army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. They ask companies to tender for the production of bulk quantities of a non-virulent strain of anthrax, and for equipment to produce significant volumes of other biological agents ... Although the Sterne strain is not thought to be harmful to humans and is used for vaccination, the contracts have caused major concern. 'It raises a serious question over how the US is going to demonstrate its compliance with obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention if it brings these tanks online,'"
wtf? Are you happy ewith just jumping to conclusions and into the US bashing immediately whenever something you might be able to use against US comes up no matter the logic? where is your evidence this it to be used militarily or illegally on people? is there any clue these are to be used against people? NO. So shutup with your wild allegations and go find something else better to do
anti US bashers just MAKE ME MAD.
Did you read the fucking article? No weapons capabilities. Or did you think anthrax and your knee immediately jerked?
Marxism is the opiate of dumbasses
So when the US gathers nuclear, virulent and other weapons of mass destruction its just A ok? Not because its any different than if anyone else does it but because the US is "good" and the saviour of the world? I dont buy that for a second.
I can honestly say i fully understand why so many people hate the US with a passion. Its the essence of lies and deception. The sad thing is that not all have understood that the US isnt a democracy anymore and that the US people have nothing to do with current state of affairs. They are just puppets like the citizens in any two party bananarepublic. Whomever you vote for its still the same people and beliefs. People need to learn to separete the people from the administration. Hate the government in the US but leave the people alone.
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And this is just the start of his incompetence. Oh, and for all you democrats, where the F**K is the competent opponents? Why did so many support an invasion of a country over something that was so contrived? Supposedly, the CIA and NSA pulled one over? Really? None of the dems (and for that matter most republicans) seem to remember that right after bush's State of the Union address where GWB announced that Sadaam was trying to procur Uranium, Tenet came out and said that was a total fabrication. After GWB said that was not true, then and only then, did tenet back off on that. Of course, now a days, this is for liberation purposes. But we seem to ignore the fact that there are many worse countries out there.
Throughout history, each and every country possessing weapons with a destructive power way bigger then their neighbors have used them offensively on their neighbors.
The US has been nuking Mexico and Canada secretly for 60 years.
Iraq, North Korea, Iran, etc... all of them are demonised for even thinking about developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. There's outrage if they hint that it's okay to have them.
... and the United States, the UK, France, USSR/Russia, China, and Isreal on the other ... you're just being willfully ignorant. Simply put, one group is/was a collection of unstable, unpredictable, despotic regimes ... and one is not.
Iraq, North Korea, and Iran have all demonstrated their complete lack of restraint when it comes to subjugating their own citizens. There should be outrage and steps taken when they attempt to procure such weapons.
The United States, on the other hand, has had nuclear weapons for 60 years now, and used them exactly twice to end a war that the Japanese started. We've never used biological weapons.
Regarding nuclear weapons, if you're truly unable to see the difference between Iran, Iraq, NK on one end of the spectrum
On the other hand, the USA, which is the only country to ever use nuclear bombs against another country (civilians, no less),
Boo hoo. My heart bleeds. But let's not get sidetracked into a debate about whether or not the use of the atomic bombs on Japan were justified or not. I believe it was; you believe it was not; leave it at that.
who has invaded two countries in the past few years,
Reasonable people can debate the wisdom or justification of the Iraq invasion. Afghanistan and the Taliban, however, actively supported Al Qaeda and there is absolutely no reasonable argument to condemn our invasion of that country - especially since we're still there, expending a great deal of effort to support their new democratic government and rebuild their country.
who is the only western nation to not ratify the treaty that agrees not to send kids into battle
I'm not familiar with the treaty you refer to, but it's irrelevant as the US doesn't send kids into battle.
While you're in this hysterical anti-American frame of mind, why don't you condemn the United States for failing to draft and sponsor a global treaty banning the use of kittens as targets on machine gun ranges? Surely the fact that the Senate hasn't voted in favor of such a treaty means that kittens might be getting gunned down as we speak!
who don't believe their prisoners of war should have the protections of the Geneva conventions
Have you actually read any of the Geneva Conventions? It specifically excludes personnel not fighting as part of the uniformed armed forces of a recognized state - and for good reason. One of the purposes of the Geneva Convention is to minimize civilian deaths, and its protections were designed to exclude combatants who deliberately blend in with civilians, operate out of hospitals and mosques, target civilian relief agencies - because those tactics put civilians at risk.
Insurgents in Iraq, Al Queda and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, and terrorists of any flavor are not entitled to any of the Geneva Convention protections. This is not complicated, or even controversial to anyone who's actually read the Geneva Conventions. It doesn't take a lawyer to understand them. They're quite clear.
That said, we treat them humanely anyway, because we're not sick twisted evil people like they are.
is actively buying and developing these kinds of weapons.
Which weapons are those? The US is maintaining its nuclear arsenal. It hasn't constructed chemical weapons in a very long time (decades now?), it has no offensive biological weapons program.
The article citing the US military's purchase of anthrax and the planned facilities to deal with it is somewhat concerning to me. However, I have little doubt that we will comply with whatever non-weaponizing verification requirements are set forth in the treaty. I
Democratically elected cultural enemies are still enemies, and the US must carry the torch against Islam. /.er has his/her loved ones destroyed by Muslims, they'll fire up a home lab and fight back.
The way to destroy a low-tech, nil-infrastructure, dispersed enemy is to use BW.
They will use nukes against our infrastructure nodes, so we must be prepared to exterminate them an a manner they cannot counter.
In a Kulturkampf, there is no reason for the civilised rules one might follow against an opponent one merely disagrees with. Each person in an enemy culture is an enemy for they carry their culture like a virus. Genocide is no crime in a Kulturkampf, for the removal of the other is a duty to ones own.
Perhaps when the right