WASHINGTON (AP) -- On the same day a poison-laced letter shuttered Senate offices, President Bush asked Congress to eliminate an $8.2 million research program on how to decontaminate buildings attacked by toxins.
Buried in documents justifying Bush's 2005 budget proposal released Monday is an Environmental Protection Agency acknowledgment that his proposed cut "represents complete elimination of homeland security building decontamination research."
The agency said in the documents that Bush's proposal will "force it to disband the technical and engineering expertise that will be needed to address known and emerging biological and chemical threats in the future.
Um, what is he thinking?
And we BETTER be taking advantage of this idiocy!
I read the rest here:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/05/ricin.bush.ap/index.html
Ok, we know that Bush isn't very bright. But, c'mon, this is just politically stupid! I hope that all remaining Democratic candidats leap on this and talk about just how weak Bush is on National Security.
Does Bush WANT to lose?