Meanwhile, Bush pulls a con job

[cal04]

His 'focus' on security steps comes three years too late
Back before Jonas Salk developed his polio vaccine in 1952, summer could be a bad time for America's children. The fear of polio often kept them indoors, away from the beach or out of the pool.
So it came as a surprise when the government ran out of the vaccine in those early days and the secretary of health, education and welfare, Oveta Culp Hobby, uttered one of the great dumb remarks of U.S. history: "No one could have foreseen the public demand for the vaccine."

The spirit of Hobby lives on in President Bush. Almost three years after the awful events of 9/11 and after his administration went to war for reasons that did not exist, Bush has ordered his crack staff to see which of the 9/11 commission's recommendations can be implemented fast and without congressional approval.

"We will move on all fronts very aggressively in the coming days and weeks," a presidential aide told reporters. It is Hobbyism at its most egregious for Bush suddenly to announce that he will do what he has put off doing for, lo, these last three years.

On the contrary, the President steadfastly stood by his team of jolly incompetents who, rather than explain what had gone wrong, merely slapped Bush on the back and bonded with him in a manly fashion. George Tenet stayed at the head of the CIA even after he had assured Bush that it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq retained weapons of mass destruction. They recommended a host of measures, some of which - improved border and port security, an integrated "watch list," etc. - you would have thought would have been implemented on 9/12




http://www.nydailynews.com/news/col/story/216004p-185910c.html

[Paradise]

1. 9/11 happened in "2001". It is now "2004".

However, not to worry, * is at his ranch thinking about it! :)

[zbdent]

2. I shudder to think what would have happened to all the disease in

this country if those who developed the vaccines were doing it only for the profit motive, instead of actually trying to cure something.

Could you imagine it? Instead of a vaccine which stops it almost totally dead in its tracks, we would have the drugs which would "contain" the disease, and you would have to take meds every so often.