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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (932)	12/25/2002 10:36:39 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

What do you people make of this smallpox mania? I figure: A) people are hollering that they want it, so pacify them OR B) They have solid info that Saddam has quantities of it, and want to be prepared. OR C) Combination of both. What impresses me is that Israel is going ahead with it. I can see our Bureaucrats overreacting, but not theirs.

To: zonder who wrote (932)	12/25/2002 11:54:17 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 15987

What do you people make of this smallpox mania? Hard to answer without being privy to the same reports that the government officials are using. If they have reports that Saddam has stocks of weaponized smallpox, then it makes sense to prepare quantities of the vaccine and vaccinate the first providers. As for any other virus he might use, there may not be much we can do to prepare for it.