Isn’t it odd that the Iraq War is always blamed on American vengefulness post-9/11? Seems to me, the passions of Joe and Joanne America had cooled along with the Trade Center girders by the time Saddam was toppled 18 months later. It’s not as if throngs of raving Americans filled the streets demanding the vicious princes of Baghdad be brought to their knees. The war notice was as much a surprise to folks here as it must have been to Iraqis. Up to that moment, everyone expected the weapons inspections/Saddam defiance square dance to shuffle along until the beleaguered denizens of the Fertile Crescent were forced to accept more and more humiliating sanctions. Then… BOOM!... get outta town Hussein. And take your cotton-pickin', owl-hoot sons with you.

We can now be pretty damn sure the actual, shock-and-awe Iraq War wasn't the product of vengeful Americans. It was a coldly planned and cynically calculated act of strategic belligerence that was in the works long before Atta and his upper-middle class fanatics climbed aboard the airliners.

Although the New York attack was hijacked and used as the war's trigger, the Pearl Harbor that finally detonated direct, violent action on the hapless Iraqis, supporting "evidence" in Saddam's indictment was pretty screwy, and even to committed true-believers the whole scheme stank to high heaven. Nevertheless, with the help of a stumblebum, lap-doggie national media, the casus belli was impelled along by a myriad of shady characters, clumsy forgeries and bald-faced lies. One of the most direct acts of evil in the casebook, and the one which outwardly appeared as work of the CBW-obsessed Saddam, was the anthrax letter attacks in the weeks following 9/11.

None other than Fox News ran some coverage of the strangely forgotten, extavagantly ignored atocity's resurfacing last week. After pursuing one innocent suspect and convicting another, by proxy, in the press, it seems the Department of Justice has announced it's narrowed the list on the potential killers. It's here:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342852,00.html

And a website tracing a carefully studied blow-by-blow of the case is here:

http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/#comments