US military shops for Anthrax

I love the hypocrisy of the US army. Saddam got his butt kicked for chem and bio weps, now the US army are asking companies to bid on the production of Anthrax for threat assessment purposes.

Mmm. Considering the number of terrorist cells that are apparently in operation at the moment, how easy would it be for this stuff to fall into the wrong hands. Let alone that the US might consider using it themselves. Would they viloate a biological weapons treaty by disguising it as threat assessment? Would they invade a sovereign country for oil...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/26/anthrax_shopping_spree/print.html