Prime example of how * is not protecting the country.

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(use it on your freetard friends )from last Feb.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/02/07/bush_seeks_to_end_research_program_on_bioattacks/

Bush seeks to end research program on bioattacks
By John Heilprin, Associated Press, 2/7/2004

WASHINGTON -- 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 with toxins.

Critics said Thursday that they were surprised by Bush's request, which was included in his 2005 budget proposal. Its release coincided with the discovery of the poison ricin in the office of the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, on Monday.

"It is a stunning example of the budget choices this administration has made, where tax cuts for elites are more important than public health or adequate homeland security," said Tom Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota and the Senator minority leader.

Daschle's office was the target of an anthrax-laced letter in October 2001 when he was the majority leader.

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Buried in documents justifying the Environmental Protection Agency's budget plan is an acknowledgment that Bush's proposed research cut "represents the complete elimination of homeland security building decontamination research."