In 1972 the United States Congress ratified the http://www.cdi.org/... 1972 Biological Weapons Treaty. To make the world a safer place, here we are three decades later, and we are spending money as a nation hand over fist to break this treaty, in the words of our President "trust me".  

I might trust him that it is for our nations own good, except the history of the two men next to him, scares the hell out of me, given their involvement in "human experiments" with chemical weapons and drugs and Rumsfled's prior concurrence in Nixon's cabinet prior to 1972 in the biological human tests at Fort Detrick, Maryland. They have shown they have no regard for the "volunteers' lives. They refuse to do complete health studies of the Cold War veterans  today and still ignore the dead and disabled veterans and widows from Edgewood Arsenal and Fort Detrick.  http://www.dailykos.com/...

Even the British are being made to answer for their version of Edgewood Arsenal, it is called Porton Downs, the difference is in Britian the  public did not learn of the testing until six years ago, they have compensated one family and know they have to compensate hundreds more.

How does this differ from the tests the American Governmnet did at Edgewood Arsenal Maryland, nothing except the amount of men used, the British used 700 men from 1939 thru 1989 The American government used 7120 men from 1952 thru 1975 in the Cold War experiments and another approximate 4000 men in the WW2 era experiments.

In 1972 the United States became signatories to the Biological Weapons Treaty it states that we will not create, build, posess and we will destory all stockpiles of already held weapons.

We are behind on that point, due to lack of funding but that is not the issue today, we are looking at how much they are proposing to spend in FY 2007 for this program that was stopped in 1972. By President Nixon no less. I just knew the numbers had to be wrong more for an illegal weapons program than on veterans healthcare, couldn't be could it?