If there had been bentonite in the anthrax, the Iraqi invasion would have been Late 2001, early 2002 at the latest. All the need to get a UN mandate would have been moot. Iraq attacked the US with WMDs and we responded. End of discussion.

Perhaps there was supposed to be bentonite in the anthrax. Everyone got the word to proceed then, surprise, back come the lab tests: no bentonite.

Yesterday, the Washington Post revealed details on when the FBI thinks Dr. Ivins went to Princeton to mail the first set of letters:

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Meanwhile, bits of fresh information continued to come out. A partial log of Ivins's work hours shows that he worked late in the lab on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 16, signing out at 9:52 p.m. after two hours and 15 minutes. The next morning, the sources said, he showed up as usual but stayed only briefly before taking leave hours. Authorities assume that he drove to Princeton immediately after that, dropping the letters in a mailbox on a well-traveled street across from the university campus. Ivins would have had to have left quickly to return for an appointment in the early evening, about 4 or 5 p.m.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

However, on page 8 of the FBI affidavit:

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The investigation examined Dr. Ivins's laboratory activity immediately before and after the window of opportunity for the mailing of the Post and Brokaw letters to New York which began at 5:00 p.m. Monday, September 17,2001 and ended at noon on Tuesday, September 18,

2001.

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http://www.usdoj.gov/amerithrax/07-524-M-01%20attachmen...

Frederick, MD to Princeton, NJ is a 3 1/2 hr drive, let's say 3 hrs speeding. So if he made a 4:XX meeting, he left Princeton at 1:XX on Monday the 17th. There's no way, using the leave hours cited, the Dr. Ivins could have made the window needed to mail the first batch of anthax.

If his wife and both children swear that Dad came home that night, watched TV and went to bed, I guess that gives him a pretty good alibi.

So, if you're the FBI and you think the kids are lying to cover for Dad, you show then pictures or offer sports cars to get them to change their story.

Two things:

1.) A DemocraticUnderground poster with the handle sfexpat2000 was the first person on the web, to the best of my knowledge, which noticed this time discrepancy.

Here's the original thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3754666&mesg_id=3754666

2.) As for Dr. Ivins driving later that night:

Perhaps this is why the FBI worked so hard on Ivins children. If his wife and both children swear that Dad came home that night, watched TV and went to bed, I guess that gives him a pretty good alibi.

So, if you're the FBI and you think the kids are lying to cover for Dad, you show them pictures of the antrax victims or offer sports cars to get them to change their story.

Clearly, Amy was wild in the streets here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQ

in an envelope and put it on Henry Paulson's desk by Tuesday.

We mean it, no funny business.

--- OR ----

Give us $700 Billion to spend any way we want, or we'll blame the collapse on you.

Dare ya to say no....

Congrats.