The Discerning Texan

In the October 18-25, 1999 issue of The New Yorker, Richard Preston first explored the possible connection between the outbreak of the West Nile Virus in the United States and Saddam Hussein.   In all of the recent discussion about bioterrorism, one fact that may have been conveniently ignored by the mainstream media: the first bioterror attack on the United States may have already occurred, and it might have been perpetrated by the dictator we have already overthrown.  After pondering this on the way to work this morning, I came across a recent article in World Net Daily about the Saddam-WNV connection, with additional information that has come to light since the New Yorker story first appeared. This information, if published widely, certainly would seem to further justify our intervention to toss Mr. Hussein out, not to mention have an impact on public opinion about the matter: one wonders if Al Gore were President now and up for re-election if this story might have achieved, shall we say, more "prominence" in mainstream press coverage. In 1999 when the story did appear in the left-of-center New Yorker, President Clinton was still in office...