Reply #19: Targeted because of the government, not necessarily by the government

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All the targets of the anthrax attack were people BushCo perceived as enemies--the photo editor for the Enquirer who published Jenna Bush's pictures, several "liberal" MSM folk, and two senators, who were not only Bush adversaries, but also could have flipped control of the Senate back to the Republicans if they had died.

That doesn't prove it was Bush's doing, or the government's. There are sicko fanatics out there who would "avenge" Bush all on their own.

In favor of BushCo being behind it: the attacks have never been repeated (unusual for serial lunatics), they remain unsolved, and the letter accompanying the anthrax tried to blame Muslim terrorists, rather than taking credit for some pro-Republican, anti-liberal domestic group. Such terrorists like to brag--like the Unabomber.

In favor of it not being Bush--the anthrax was very crude, it was ineffective against most targets (it killed more people by accident), the understanding of the Senate was extremely naive (senators don't open their own mail, so there was no point in mailing it to them), and at best, it was an extremely low-percentage attack, meaning the odds that any of it would work at all was very weak. One would think that if the government had been involved, the attacks, at least on the Senate, would have been successful, or at least better planned.

I tend to think it was some nutcase Freeper with a science kit. But I wouldn't be surprised if it were BushCo. Not at all. The political side of the attacks was ignored by the media, who I guess felt it would go against their jobs as promoters of the conservative agenda to imply that a conservative could have hurt someone.