We're doing everything we can ...

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

IMHO, if Bush is doing everything [he] can, we're ALL in  trouble...!!!
 
R-)
 
In a message dated 10/05/2005 11:13:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
monropolitan at yahoo.com writes:

The New  York Times
October 5, 2005
Fear of Flu Outbreak Rattles Washington
By  GARDINER HARRIS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 - Health officials have warned  for
years that a virulent bird flu could kill millions of
people, but  few in Washington have seemed alarmed.
After a closed-door briefing last  week, however, fear
of an outbreak swept official Washington, which  was
still reeling from the poor response to  Hurricane
Katrina.

[...]

Mr. Bush spent a considerable part  of his news
conference Tuesday talking about the risks of an
outbreak  and the measures the administration is
considering to combat one, including  whether to use
the military to enforce quarantines.

"I take this  issue very seriously," he said. "The
people of the country ought to rest  assured that we're
doing everything we can."  ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/05/politics/05flu.html

Thoreen,  David.  "The President's Emergency War Powers
and the  Erosion of Civil Liberties in Pynchon's
Vineland."   Oklahoma City University Law Review
Vol. 24, No. 3 (1999):  762-98.

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/thoreen24.htm


 
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