What The Fuck!!!!!!!!!

did you know you can even get the flue being online.

and what if it don't happen?

thats like saying, what if we don't goto war again

its the only constants in history

war & plague

I can't believe how many people are buying into Bush wagging the dog. This bird flu has been talked about for awhile now and just magically becomes a focal point at the time that Bush and his office is taking heat.

By the way, does anyone know who was the chairmain of Gilead Sciences (and still owns a lot of stock), the company that owns the intellectual property rights to Tamiflu that we just ordered billions of dollars of?

Bush knows he is losing control so he is using this to proclaim marshall law.
keep the masses in line.

Well obvious-fucking-ly ... if it start happening, you don't want it to spread arround...

i'm gonna have to give that a 7/10 on the conspiracy meter

but its possible!

Loosing control of what ? No civil wars are comming ...

do tell ;)

He's definitly gonna use that or another war to try staying in power after his term ... or something like that ... but the rules he named are normal procedure under such circonstances ... there is a limit to freedom

He does not need this to start the use of marshall law. He has his declaration of war. And he can also use that to stay in office after his term.

Let me tell you something..


I'll never get the asian bird FRU!...I mean flu..

oh shit...its starting already!!

not really funny

Secretary of Defense. Of course no coincidence (just like Haliburton no-bid contracts).

RUMMY?

NO NOT RUMMY!!!

Rumsfeld's growing stake in Tamiflu
Defense Secretary, ex-chairman of flu treatment rights holder, sees portfolio value growing.
October 31, 2005: 10:55 AM EST
By Nelson D. Schwartz, Fortune senior writer

NEW YORK (Fortune) - The prospect of a bird flu outbreak may be panicking people around the globe, but it's proving to be very good news for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other politically connected investors in Gilead Sciences, the California biotech company that owns the rights to Tamiflu, the influenza remedy that's now the most-sought after drug in the world.

Rumsfeld served as Gilead (Research)'s chairman from 1997 until he joined the Bush administration in 2001, and he still holds a Gilead stake valued at between $5 million and $25 million, according to federal financial disclosures filed by Rumsfeld.

The forms don't reveal the exact number of shares Rumsfeld owns, but in the past six months fears of a pandemic and the ensuing scramble for Tamiflu have sent Gilead's stock from $35 to $47. That's made the Pentagon chief, already one of the wealthiest members of the Bush cabinet, at least $1 million richer.

Rumsfeld isn't the only political heavyweight benefiting from demand for Tamiflu, which is manufactured and marketed by Swiss pharma giant Roche. (Gilead receives a royalty from Roche equaling about 10% of sales.) Former Secretary of State George Shultz, who is on Gilead's board, has sold more than $7 million worth of Gilead since the beginning of 2005.

Another board member is the wife of former California Gov. Pete Wilson.

"I don't know of any biotech company that's so politically well-connected," says analyst Andrew McDonald of Think Equity Partners in San Francisco.

What's more, the federal government is emerging as one of the world's biggest customers for Tamiflu. In July, the Pentagon ordered $58 million worth of the treatment for U.S. troops around the world, and Congress is considering a multi-billion dollar purchase. Roche expects 2005 sales for Tamiflu to be about $1 billion, compared with $258 million in 2004.

Rumsfeld recused himself from any decisions involving Gilead when he left Gilead and became Secretary of Defense in early 2001. And late last month, notes a senior Pentagon official, Rumsfeld went even further and had the Pentagon's general counsel issue additional instructions outlining what he could and could not be involved in if there were an avian flu pandemic and the Pentagon had to respond.

As the flu issue heated up early this year, according to the Pentagon official, Rumsfeld considered unloading his entire Gilead stake and sought the advice of the Department of Justice, the SEC and the federal Office of Government Ethics.

Those agencies didn't offer an opinion so Rumsfeld consulted a private securities lawyer, who advised him that it was safer to hold on to the stock and be quite public about his recusal rather than sell and run the risk of being accused of trading on insider information, something Rumsfeld doesn't believe he possesses. So he's keeping his shares for the time being.