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Skip Intro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-29-03 02:31 AM
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So what happened to the dreaded Cuban bioweapons threat (Carter's visit)?
Remeber when Carter (a REAL US President) visited Cuba early last year? Ari and the bush gang suddenly declared Cuba was developing bioweapons technology and sharing it with "other rouge states."

Remember this bull?

What the hell ever happened to that? If Cuba was doing this more than a year ago, and the bush regime knew enough about to make those allegations right as Carter visited the country, then hasn't little hitler and his gang failed in protecting the US from this evil threat by not taking some action to stop it?

Here's some of what was alleged, just as Carter made his historic trip to the island nation:

snip:
"Cuba has provided dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states," Bolton said. "We are concerned that such technology could support BW programs in those states. ... We call on Cuba to cease all BW-applicable cooperation with rogue states and to fully comply with all of its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention."

Havana denounced Bolton's allegation as a lie and promised Carter "complete access" to any Cuban biotechnology laboratory.

But Monday, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated what Bolton had said and added that it was not a new statement by the Bush administration.

"I don't know what briefings President Carter received," Powell told reporters traveling with him to Iceland to attend a NATO summit.

snip:
During a Monday morning tour of the Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Carter told Castro and Cuba's top scientists that he specifically asked White House, State Department and intelligence officials during a recent briefing if Cuba was transferring technology or other information that could be used in terrorist activities.

"The purpose of this briefing was for them to share with us any concern that my government had about possible terrorist activities that were supported by Cuba," he said.

"There were absolutely no allegations made or questions raised. I asked them specifically on more than one occasion if there was any evidence that Cuba has been involved in sharing any information to any other country on Earth that could be used for terrorist purposes.

"The answer from our experts on intelligence was, 'No,' " Carter said.
http://www.examiner.com/headlines/default.jsp?story=n.cuba.0514w

I know ari lied about this as well, but I didn't find his lies among my Google returns. All the same, its just another, earlier example of slimy tactics to which these goons will resort.
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