Cipro-gate

Please so immediately to Salon.com and read this chilling piece by Glenn Greenwald on the 2001 anthrax mailings. It's long, but I'll wait. Go ahead.

It's been a long time since I've thought seriously about the anthrax attacks and, if Greenwald is right, it's probably been a long time since you've thought about them, too (notwithstanding the recent headlines about Ivins' suicide). As such, I have difficulty trying to determine whether or not Greenwald is correct in his assertion that the anthrax attacks were a major motivator for the war in Iraq. However, if Greenwald is right, his piece paints an absolutely bone-chilling portrait of collusion in the mainstream media to bring that war to fruition. The most disturbing bit is Greenwald's quoting of prominent journalist Richard Cohen that he (Cohen) had been told in a roundabout way by a highly-placed government official to obtain and keep close a quantity of Cipro (the anthrax antidote) BEFORE the attacks themselves actually took place. At the time, Cohen wasn't an embedded report in Iraq where biological attack was a real possibility. The US wasn't even at war with Iraq in September of 2001. Instead, Cohen was keeping a supply of Cipro on him at all times while living and working in the US, all because of a shadowy tip from a government official.

I'm generally not one to champion conspiracy theories, but in this case the elephant in the room is just to big to ignore. Is Greenwald hinting that the US government was in some way behind the anthrax attacks and that they used them as a further excuse for war?