Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

August 7, 2008

Shortly after 9-11, several high-profile figures ? including then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, and NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw ? received letters containing the anthrax virus.

Numerous news accounts, citing official sources, claimed that tests performed in the Army?s research labs at Ft. Detrick, Maryland supposedly confirmed that the anthrax samples had been created in Iraq.

George W. Bush reinforced that supposed connection in his 2002 State of the Union Address; countless articles and speeches invoked the purported Iraqi bio-weapons attacks in the build-up to the Iraq war. That conclusion did a great deal to cultivate support for the war.

The FBI, which didn?t support that conclusion, identified Bruce E. Ivins, a researcher at the Ft. Detrick lab, as the chief suspect. Ivins died last week in an apparent suicide. But it?s clear that Ivins was not alone in perpetrating this hoax, which was politically useful to the Bush administration.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.