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It seems that the lastest "smear" on Layton hasn't affected his poll numbers. He actually got a bump and is only 6 points behind Harper on the latest Nanos released tonight. I love the backfire. Go Jack go.

Move to Lethbridge. I got mine in 3 months.

Guess you've never heard of Watergate, Lee Atwater or Karl Rove.

Don't forget, "God Bless Canada".

Did he send one of them over to Layton's camp as well? link

Yep, you could run a drunken high school drop-out as a Tory and he'd win in Alberta. Oh, wait, we already did. Ralph Klein.

My bad re chemicals vs. biologicals. But Saddam had a biological weapons program was willing ready and able to use them. ...it became known that in December 1990 the Iraqis had filled 100 R-400 (Oka) missiles with botulinum toxin, 50 with anthrax, and 16 with aflatoxin. In addition, 13 Al Hussein (SCUD) warheads were filled with botulinum toxin, 10 with anthrax, and 2 with aflatoxin. These weapons were deployed in January 1991 to four locations for use against Coalition forces.[12] link I don't wish to belabour the point, just want to claim that the biologicals sent to Iraq definitely had another purpose.

Where do you place agnostics then?

Really? Here's a little more detail of some of the chemicals exported to Iraq: Bacillus Anthracis: anthrax is a disease producing bacteria identified by the Department of Defense in The Conduct of the Persian Gulf War: Final Report to Contress, as being a major component in the Iraqi biological warfare program. Anthrax is an often fatal infectious disease due to ingestion of spores. It begins abruptly with high fever, difficulty in breathing, and chest pain. The disease eventually results in septicemia (blood poisoning), and the mortality is high. Once septicemia is advanced, antibiotic therapy may prove useless, probably because the exotoxins remain, despite the death of the bacteria. Clostridium Botulinum: A bacterial source of botulinum toxin, which causes vomiting, constipation, thirst, general weakness, headache, fever, dizziness, double vision, dilation of the pupils and paralysis of the muscles involving swallowing. It is often fatal. Histoplasma Capsulatum: causes a disease superfically resembling tuberculosis that may cause pneumonia, enlargement of the liver and spleen, anemia, an influenza like illness and an acute inflammatory skin disease marked by tender red nodules, usually on the shins. Reactivated infection usually involves the lungs, the brain, spinal membranes, heart, peritoneum, and the adrenals. Brucella Melitensis: a bacteria which can cause chronic fatique, loss of appetite, profuse sweating when at rest, pain in joints and muscles, insomnia, nausea, and damage to major organs. Clostridium Perfringens: a highly toxic bateria which causes gas gangrene. The bacteria produce toxins that move along muscle bundles in the body killing cells and producing necrotic tissue that is then favorable for further growth of the bacteria itself. Eventually, these toxins and bacteria enter the bloodstream and cause a systemic illness.

Yeah, it's called self defense.

Well, that’s funny because after a 2 minute google search I found this: …The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs has oversight responsibility for the Export Administration Act. Pursuant to the Act, Committee staff contacted the U.S. Department of Commerce and requested information on the export of biological materials during the years prior to the Gulf War. After receiving this information, we contacted a principal supplier of these materials to determine what, if any, materials were exported to Iraq which might have contributed to an offensive or defensive biological warfare program. Records available from the supplier for the period from 1985 until the present show that during this time, pathogenic (meaning "disease producing"), toxigenic (meaning "poisonous"), and other biological research materials were exported to Iraq pursuant to application and licensing by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Records prior to 1985 were not available, according to the supplier. These exported biological materials were not attenuated or weakened and were capable of reproduction… Senate Report, 103d Congress, 2d Session May 25, 1994 link These nasty chemicals were included. Bacillus Anthracis, Clostridium Botulinum, Histoplasma Capsulatum, Brucella Melitensis,and Clostridium Perfringens This is especially interesting: "It was later learned," the committee revealed, "that these microorganisms exported by the United States were identical to those the United Nations inspectors found and removed from the Iraqi biological warfare program."

And who would be the arbiter?

Clearly these so called "scandals" did not affect the electorate from giving Chretien 3 back-to-back majorites. Harper can only dream of getting one.

Name one please.