Ask John McCain about his sources for the Anthrax attacks being linked to Iraq.

[Postman]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-anthrax-iraq/

UPDATE IV: John McCain, on the David Letterman Show, October 18, 2001 (days before ABC News first broadcast their bentonite report):

LETTERMAN: How are things going in Afghanistan now?

MCCAIN: I think we're doing fine . . . I think we'll do fine. The second phase -- if I could just make one, very quickly -- the second phase is Iraq. There is some indication, and I don't have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may -- and I emphasize may -- have come from Iraq.

LETTERMAN: Oh is that right?

MCCAIN: If that should be the case, that's when some tough decisions are gonna have to be made.

ThinkProgress has the video. Someone ought to ask McCain what "indication" he was referencing that the anthrax "may have come from Iraq."

After all, three days later, McCain and Joe Lieberman went on Meet the Press (on October 21, 2001) and both strongly suggested that we would have to attack Iraq. Lieberman said that the anthrax was so complex and potent that "there's either a significant amount of money behind this, or this is state-sponsored, or this is stuff that was stolen from the former Soviet program."

As I said, it is not possible to overstate the importance of anthrax in putting the country into the state of fear that led to the attack on Iraq and so many of the other abuses of the Bush era. There are few news stories more significant, if there are any, than unveiling who the culprits were behind this deliberate propaganda. The fact that the current GOP presidential nominee claimed back then on national television to have some "indication" linking Saddam to the anthrax attacks makes it a bigger story still.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. It's pretty clear that McCain is a know-nothing asshole. He has no special insight

or wisdom or anything else. He's just a boob.

[ingac70]

2. Big fat liar like Chimpy.

That clip needs to be made into a commercial.

[Muttocracy]

3. k&r

[robertpaulsen]

4. I believe he got his "indication" from our favorite Number Two squatting in the White House.

CHENEY & HIS STAFF STARTED TAKING CIPRO ON THE EVENING OF 9/11

On the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House Medical Office dispensed Cipro to staff accompanying Vice President Dick Cheney as he was secreted off to the safety of Camp David, and told them it was "a precaution," according to one person directly involved.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011023/aponline201158_000.htm

The first set of anthrax letters were postmarked on September 18, 2001, one week after Cheney and his staff started taking Cipro.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_anthrax_attacks