“There is some indication, and I don’t have the conclusions, but some of this anthrax may — and I emphasize may — have come from Iraq.”

—  John McCain

David Letterman http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-anthrax-iraq/ (18 October 2001), linking anthrax attacks in the U.S. to Iraq. <br class="br">2000s, 2001

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