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Yahoo! News – Records Show U.S. Sent Germs to Iraq

In 1983, back when when Donald Rumsfeld was buddy-buddy with Saddam, and the US was supporting Iraq in its war with Iran, the US sent Iraq “strains of all the germs Iraq used to make weapons, including anthrax, the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and the germs that cause gas gangrene, the records show. Iraq also got samples of other deadly pathogens, including the West Nile virus.” Neato!
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