Bush "Developing Illegal Offensive Bioterror Weapons"

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Bush "Developing Illegal Bioterror Weapons" for Offensive Use

By Sherwood Ross
t r u t h o u t | Guest Contributor

Wednesday 20 December 2006

In violation of the US Code and international law, the Bush administration is spending more money (in inflation-adjusted dollars) to develop illegal, offensive germ warfare than the $2 billion spent in World War II on the Manhattan Project to make the atomic bomb.

So says Francis Boyle, the professor of international law who drafted the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989 enacted by Congress. He states the Pentagon "is now gearing up to fight and 'win' biological warfare" pursuant to two Bush national strategy directives adopted "without public knowledge and review" in 2002.

...more - http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/122006R.shtml