We're doing everything we can ...

[Joe Allonby]

He's appointing his brother Neil to head up an ad hoc blue-ribbon
faith-based commission to study
the genetics of the bird influenza virus. Martha Stewart has offered to
serve on the panel.

Bush is so concerned that he bought a birdwatcher's field manual hoping to
find some info in there.


On 10/5/05, Rcfchess at aol.com <Rcfchess at aol.com> wrote:
>
>  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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