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Would it have mattered if the Democrats had protested and acted a fool like the Republicans over the Iraq War like the Republicans are doing over health care Reform?

Poll I think that the Republicans would have pulled the National Security / Patriotism Card and tried to shame those that disagreed with President Bush and the Republican Party and their plan to go to War based entirely on lies.

N Korea Tests Chemical and Biological Weapons on Handicapped Children
Source: AL JAZEERA

When Im Chun-yong made his daring escape from North Korea, with a handful of his special forces men, there were many reasons why the North Korean government was intent on stopping them.

Analysts say N. Korea's chemical arms pose risk
Source: msnbc.com

North Korea's massive stockpile of chemical weapons is as threatening as its nuclear program, analysts said Thursday, highlighting an aspect of the regime that is rarely talked about.

Researchers creating life from scratch
Source: msnbc.com

They're called "synthetic biologists" and they boldly claim the ability to make living things, one genetic molecule at a time.

Al-Qaeda cell killed by Black Death 'was developing biological weapons'
Source: Telegraph

The group of 40 terrorists were reported to have been killed by the plague at a training camp in Algeria earlier this month. It was initially believed that they could have caught the disease through fleas on rats attracted by poor living conditions in their forest hideout.

The Black Death Strikes al-Qaeda
Source: progressivepuppy.com

The disease which killed 25 million Europeans during the Middle Ages may prove to be an unlikely ally in America's War on Terror, according to British sources

The War Dogs of Cat Island
Source: SunHerald.com

The new four-legged residents moving onto Cat Island were pets patriotically donated for the war cause. Unknown to their previous owners, they were to be trained to recognize Japanese by sight and smell and to viciously attack them in packs.

Official: Iraq war was both intel, policy failure
Source: msnbc.com

Gently admonishing President George W. Bush, the nation's newly retired chief intelligence analyst on Tuesday suggested that the Iraq war was as much the failure of policymakers as it was the flawed intelligence on which they relied.

Dry Fabric Can Wipe Away Toxic Chemicals
Source: The New York Times

A new dry wipe can clean up chemical agents such as mustard gas, giving soldiers a more convenient way to deal with toxic materials on the battlefield, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. More Articles

Panel Expects Use of Unconventional Weapon
Source: The New York Times

An independent commission has concluded that terrorists will most likely carry out an attack with biological, nuclear or other unconventional weapons somewhere in the world in the next five years unless the United States and its allies act urgently to prevent that.

Compound Could Help Detect Chemical & Biological Agents at a Distance
Source: chemie.de

A light-transmitting compound that could one day be used in high-efficiency fiber optics and sensors that detect biological and chemical weapons at long distance almost went undiscovered by scientists because its structure was too difficult to examine. More Articles

In WMD Report, U.S. Gets a C: Group of Ex-Officials Says Terrorism Threat Remains Real
Source: The Washington Post

Seven years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the federal government has made only limited progress toward preventing a catastrophic nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S.

Al-Qaida No. 2 pays tribute to commanders
Source: msnbc.com

Al-Qaida's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, paid tribute to several commanders from the militant group killed in a recent U.S. strike in a new video recording posted Friday on a militant Web site.

Al-Qaida chemical expert reportedly killed
Source: msnbc.com

Missiles hit a building in a Pakistani village on the border with Afghanistan on Monday, and intelligence officials said they were investigating reports that a senior al-Qaida figure was among six people killed.

Bush: Iraq is a Fight America Can and Must Win
Source: VOA News

President Bush marked the fifth anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq with a speech at the U.S. Defense Department. VOA White House Correspondent Paula Wolfson reports Mr. Bush took on his critics, saying the war is worth fighting and winning.

What do the E. coli outbreaks of 2006 tell us about the limits of bioterrorism?
Source: Slate

An outbreak of E. coli isn't usually the stuff of feel-good stories. Feel-bad is more like it—or even feel-organ-failure. But recent E. coli outbreaks can offer us a bit of solace.

Deceit, Hypocrisy and Terror -- The History of Biological and Chemical Weapons
Source: Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"The US sold the technology and materials Iraq needed to develop weapons of mass destruction.

Pentagon Poised To Resume Open Air Testing of Biological Weapons
Source: biddho.com

(ANS) --- The Pentagon has denied President Bush issued a directive for it to resume open-air testing of chemical and biological warfare(CBW) agents that were halted by President Richard Nixon in 1969.

Experts fault U.S. preparation for anthrax attack - Yahoo! News
Source: Yahoo! News

The US government remains unprepared for an anthrax attack more than five years after an initial wave of mailings tainted with anthrax caused five deaths and 17 injured.

General fired from Walter Reed revolving to Fort Detrick to oversee U.S. biological weapons defense research
Source: The Baltimore Sun

HAGERSTOWN - The two-star general who was fired as the head of Walter Reed Army Medical Center amid reports of shoddy treatment of wounded soldiers has regained favor and will oversee U.S.

Chalabi: Curveball Not Our Fabricator
Source: MotherJones.com

On Sunday, CBS' 60 Minutes revealed the identity of Curveball, the Iraqi defector who falsely claimed first to German and then U.S. military intelligence that Iraq was producing mobile biological weapons labs.

60 Minutes Outs "Curveball," The Faulty Intel Source Bush Used To Support The Iraq Invasion
Source: CBS News

60 Minutes has identified the man whose fabricated story of Iraqi biological weapons drove the U.S. argument for invading Iraq.

Faulty Intel Source "Curve Ball" Revealed
Source: CBS News

60 Minutes has identified the man whose fabricated story of Iraqi biological weapons drove the U.S. argument for invading Iraq.

Syria's Strategic Weapons Programs
Source: PeaceWatch

Excellent article about Syria's weapons. Apparently they don't have nukes yet...but: "Chemical and biological weapons: Syria probably has the largest and most advanced chemical warfare program in the Arab world.

University vice president resigns after CDC investigation
Source: The Battalion

Texas A&M's vice president of research resigned Wednesday, while the University is still awaiting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report on the researchers exposed to bioagents.

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