Seanad debates

Friday, 21 March 2003

I am glad the United States has stopped describing this as a war against weapons of mass destruction and has now acknowledged that the objective is regime change. As other speakers pointed out, few nations in the world have a worse reputation with regard to weapons of mass destruction than the United States of America. Senator Ryan referred to the vast US stocks of chemical weapons and we must also remember that country's biological weapons, which include anthrax and smallpox. The USA is, in fact, the only country in the world where anthrax has been used in recent years. Nobody has been arrested for those attacks on innocent civilians within the last few years, with the result that many people are still afraid to open letters delivered by post. When I asked why a person would not open an envelope with a friendly green harp on the front, I was told it is difficult to know who might pretend to be one's friend nowadays.

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