Bush Aide Blocked Report

[cal04]

Source: Washington Post

Global Health Draft In 2006 Rejected for Not Being Political
A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments, according to current and former public health officials.

The report described the link between poverty and poor health, urged the U.S. government to help combat widespread diseases as a key aim of its foreign policy, and called on corporations to help improve health conditions in the countries where they operate. A copy of the report was obtained by The Washington Post.

Three people directly involved in its preparation said its publication was blocked by William R. Steiger, a specialist in education and a scholar of Latin American history whose family has long ties to President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Since 2001, Steiger has run the Office of Global Health Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services.

Richard H. Carmona, who commissioned the "Call to Action on Global Health" while serving as surgeon general from 2002 to 2006, recently cited its suppression as an example of the Bush administration's frequent efforts during his tenure to give scientific documents a political twist. At a July 10 House committee hearing, Carmona did not cite Steiger by name or detail the report's contents and its implications for American public health.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/28/AR2007072801420.html?hpid=topnews

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Bush Appointee Blocked Surgeon General's Draft

A 2006 report urging Americans to help tackle global health problems kept from public chiefly because it did not promote White House objectives.

[brentspeak]

1. Yet another Bush stooge.

[Doctor_J]

2. It is breathtaking how filthy and craven these people are

They are the absolute scum of the Earth.

[Solly Mack]

3. wonderful

[silverweb]

4. There's no end to their criminal depravity.

Absolutely no end.

:grr:

[rodeodance]

5. p. A01

good to see this on the front page

[alfredo]

6. bush is putting these political minders in all departments.

How long will it be before he has at least one minder in each community so they can demand loyalty and report free thought or action by its citizens.

[jaysunb]

8. Cheney & Rove...not Bush

are responsible for this. Bush is neither smart enough or cares enough to develop such a plan.

Pure scum, the both of them. :evilfrown:

[alfredo]

35. The guy who drives the getaway car is just as guilty.

[tblue37]

11. Apparatchiks. (eom)

[Maryland Liberal]

7. Attack Bush, Attack Bush. Attack Bush ... Can we move on?

Since we are gonna NOT impeach the Bushie, can we focus on who is the best Presidential Canidate?

[jaysunb]

9. NO !

we can't keep our republic, if we continue to look the other way.

[barbtries]

37. i agree

just because they should never have been in office, just because impeachment and criminal proceedings should have commenced months and years ago, doesn't mean that action should not be taken NOW. right now. my fear is that without it, we'll only be in for more of the same, or the motherfuckers will attack us again, declare martial law, and the election will not happen. what is more likely is that the fix is being put in all over the land as we speak. they must be stopped.

[badgervan]

12. Accountability

bushcheneyrovegonzo MUST be held accountable for their many, many crimes against our Constitution and the rule of law. They also lied us into an unnecessary war, continue to lie about this war, have trashed our Justice system, and have put our children into debt for the rest of their lives.
They simply cannot get away with what they have done to our country.

[IChing]

17. no

[BulletproofLandshark]

18. Nope, don't think so.

Proximity to primary season doesn't factor in to holding * accountable for his misdeeds.

[Demit]

19. No. Wow.

If all you want is attention to continuous elections, and no attention to how our government is run, best to stick with the talking heads in the major media. They agree with you that the horse race is what's most important. They even trivialize criticism of what's been happening as "attacking Bush", so they're right up your alley.

[mwb970]

26. Move on? Move on where?

As long as these thugs are in charge, we have nowhere to go. Impeach now.

[Tyler Durden]

29. Welcome to DU and what are you...NUTS??

Sort of like concentrating on Who's the next alderman while Richard J. Daley is mayor of Chicago (Not his kid, THE Daley).

[The Count]

38. A "CANINATE" (sic) is only as good as the democracy left to govern in

If it's a dictatorship, the entire election process is bogus anyway (as it's been for the past 7 years)

[Stuckinthebush]

42. Attack?

I think a more appropriate word is "reveal". Reveal what Bush has done!

By revealing what this incompetent and criminal administration has done to our country and to our constitution we can help Americans see what a disaster the GOP is. This helps all of our candidates....and more importantly, our country.

[OnionPatch]

54. Exactly!

All of these Bush atrocities add up to a perfect example of what the Republicans will do when given free reign. I think it's important to keep rooting them out and airing them in the light of day.

[flyarm]

43. can we move on , can we move on, can we move on..nooo..hell no!!

this is our country..that is our Surgeon General's report..we paid for it..we employ the Surgeon General..he works for us..we employ him to tell us the truth..you got a problem with truth???????????



you move on...

the rest of us will do our responsibility to our constitution...

we the people...

now move along if you are not one of us....we the people...who take our responsibility to the constitution seriously...and the rest of us will discuss the important stuff, like any adult would..!!

Like bogus reports!!

and a president , his vp and his office whore who are fucking this nation!!

fly

[flyarm]

44. is that stinky shoes..or rotten fish i smell?????????..i swear an odor just flew by me! eom

[Frisbee]

45. Elections...

Left to their own devices, you really think there would elections? The pressure ABSOLUTELY MUST stay on them.

[flyarm]

46. welcome to DU ..ImForGore ...i am for gore too!!..

welcome here!!:hi: :patriot:


RUN AL RUN!!


:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

FLY

[Horse with no Name]

47. How is that head in the sand working out for you?

You obviously don't care for REAL NEWS...perhaps there is "another" forum that would be more to your liking?:eyes:

[mzmolly]

50. No. This is not about "attacking" it's about information.

As to impeachment, it remains to be seen if we'll impeach. "Impeachment is an organic process...." John Nichols.

[annabanana]

51. '08 is a long long time away.. too much damage can be done.

We have to fight any way we can to keep this maladministration from doing more harm to our country and the world.

[momster]

52. Why the Hell Not?

There is no 'moving on' from here. Every day that he isn't held accountable for the b.s. of these last 6 years is another day that he thinks it's all just dandilicious out here in Amurika-land. Only by constantly keeping up the repetitions of past malfeasance and the revelation of the new crimes will the outrage and indignation be strong enough to be heard by those who can take action. Look to the future, sure. But if we don't bring awareness of what has been done in the last 6 yrs, nothing will change. So attack the SOB as much as you can and as loudly as you can. You'll be amazed how many people will agree with you!

[Dj13Francis]

10. So what else is new

Sounds like business as usual to me... Worst. President. Ever.

[EV_Ares]

13. Well, I hope the senate stops his getting the ambassador job. eom

[shanti]

14. SSDD

the publicans accuse others of politicizing when that's all they freaking do! projection at its best :eyes:

[IChing]

15. Also said there was no link between Junk food and obesity to WHO

You know Bill Clinton's friend? George Herbert Walker Bush?

In a leaked confidential letter to the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Lee Jong-Wook, the US government has rejected decades of nutritional research and denied that there is any evidence of a link between junk food and obesity. The letter, from William R Steiger, special assistant at the Department of Health and Human Services and godson to George Bush Sr, is the United States' official response to an April 2003 report by the WHO and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). That report, entitled "Diet, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases," argues that governments should take steps to limit children's exposure to junk-food advertising, and says that added sugar should comprise no more than 10% of a healthy diet.

The report was released last spring, prompting American food manufacturers' groups to begin frantic lobbying in Washington. The Sugar Association wrote to Gro Harlem Brundtland, then WHO director-general, threatening to "exercise every avenue available to expose the dubious nature" of the report. Congressmen recruited by the food industry urged the Secretary of Health, Tommy Thompson, to cut off the $406 million annual US contribution to the WHO.


http://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com/issue/2004_02_1...

[tecelote]

20. The link does not work for me.

Can you post the entire link?

Thanks!

[tecelote]

21. Found It...

http://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com/issue/2004_02_15/features06.html

Amazing how it's all about supporting a profit.

Our government is now a corporation and we are not the stockholders.

[NYC]

55. We are the minority shareholders. We contribute our capital,

but have no control whatsoever.

[19jet54]

16. It is all about control...

... reality & science have nothing to do with control freaks and bullies? Let's see, what did they tell me; "I'll tell you what the law says!"

[Summer93]

22. Priority is .....

If "Money trumps peace" than probably money trumps health in the way of thinking of this administration.

[riona]

23. This administration's job applicants must be prepared

to check experience, intelligence and further brain use at the door.

[Vinca]

24. Corporations contribute to the health of the people they're using

as virtual slaves? I don't think so. The reason they left the U.S. in the first place was to avoid buying health insurance for their employees. No wonder the Bushbot killed the report. Protect the corporations, screw the people.

[The Backlash Cometh]

25. Well, well. So the right-wingers have their own brand of PC.

[MasonJar]

27. It would be virtually impossible to list all the wrongdoing by these

political parasites (my pardon to parasites) because the litany are so numerous, onerous and ongoing and daily.

[hisownpetard]

33. Right - there is virtually no stone you can turn that doesn't have some

slimy, slithering secret under it. Malfeasance is rampant, mocking the letter
and the spirit of the law at every turn. Evidently, Bush knows a lot of people who
are sick enough to think up these things - withholding the findings
of a report on the nation's health because it doesn't promote Herr Busch?
Advising the Surgeon General of the United States that he cannot release any
kind of information unless ****s name is mentioned three times per page??

I don't know where **** found so many highly unqualified and twisted people
to fill every position in government. He has changed this country from
our nation to our ruination.

IMPEACH.

[Wednesdays]

28. Of course! If it doesn't promote raking in profits for the corporations

it goes into the shredder. :(

[Joe Chi Minh]

30. It never ends, does it? Goodness knows what is else is out there,

hidden under rocks and stones, waiting to be uncovered.

[Maestro]

31. It was blocked because it lacked "...scientific rigor?"

This admin wouldn't no scientific rigor if it slapped them in the ass. What a bunch of crap. This guy, who seems to have no background in health, is but one more of Dumbya's and Darth's bootlickers. Disgusting!

Steiger also has worked with Tommy Thompson, former stooge in the Health and Human Services Dept.

[Kokonoe]

32. Why does the washington post call it a Draft in the headline.

Global Health Report would seem to be accurate. Ooh, It must have been edited by the white house. never mind.

[Thickasabrick]

34. LOL...go to the article and read the comments. One guy said....

"What do these Bush people have to DO to face appropriate oversight from Congress? Eat live babies on national TV?"

[barbtries]

39. excellent question

and i can just about imagine them doing it behind closed doors

[barbtries]

36. it doesn't matter what the subject is

this story happens over and over and over. i actually thought i'd heard this one before, but maybe it was in relation to NASA, or the environment, or katrina, or coal mines, or stripmining, or global warming, or the war. it is staggering the way the bushies have populated nearly every office of power with people who have no allegiance other than politics. it disgusts me. and is so destructive, and so wrong, and they seem not to notice and certainly do not care.

[Blue Fire]

40. Maybe they're still editing it into all one syllable words

so dumya can read it while perched on his porcelain throne?

[formercia]

41. The Cheney-Steiger Connection

http://www.gnosticliberationfront.com/bohemian_grove.htm


--snip--
Dick Cheney was selected for a one-year fellowship in the office of Representative William Steiger.

--snip--

[gulliver]

48. We need a new forum just for "Bush Aide Blocked Report" stories

These are clogging up LBN.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

49. ...

:banghead: :banghead:

[NYC]

53. The report described the link between poverty and poor health...

Poverty is extensive in the U.S.

[Botany]

56. and yet they play "the Christian Card" ....

.... all the time. But to take care of the sick & needy ... not so much.

Shame means nothing to them.

[formercia]

57. The boys have been playing the 'Christian' card for Centuries

before that, it was for the Glory of Rome.

Before there were saints, there were Roman and greek Gods.


http://journals.democraticunderground.com/formercia/37

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