SHAMIFLU: The Bush White House and the war against bird flu.
SHAMIFLU: The Bush White House and the war against bird flu.
iflitifloat
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/03
#0SHAMIFLU: The Bush White House and the war against bird flu.
Posted: 11/26/05 at 5:47pm
President Bush went to Congress early this month to ask for $7B to prepare the nation for a possible outbreak of Asian bird flu. The federal government has since become the world's biggest customer for Tamiflu, produced by the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, Roche. That was good news for Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, who doesn't have bird flu. He doesn't have stock in Roche either, but he does have millions of dollars worth of stock in a company named Gilead Sciences, having been Gilead's Chairman prior to joining the Bush administration. Low-profile Gilead Sciences owns the rights to Tamiflu, which it outsources to Roche. There is little evidence that the antiviral drug would help much in a flu pandemic.
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popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#1re: SHAMIFLU: The Bush White House and the war against bird flu.
Posted: 11/26/05 at 6:00pmThere's even LESS evidence that the bird flu is ever going to be anything even approaching a pandemic. The scaremongering going on is just shameful.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#2re: SHAMIFLU: The Bush White House and the war against bird flu.
Posted: 11/26/05 at 11:06pm
LEt's see.
War in Iraq/Afghanistan: lucrative contracts to Haliburton (kickbacks to Cheney).
Hurricane Katrina disaster/rebuilding efforts in New Orleans: lucrative contracts to Haliburton (kickbacks to Cheney redux).
Bird Flu (bird to person to person): lucrative contracts for Rummy.
Why is anyone at all surprised by this?
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