Donald Rumsfeld to Profit: Spending on Avian Bird Flu
Pandemic
November 01, 2005

Donald Rumsfeld to Profit Millions from Bush Spending
on Avian Bird Flu Pandemic
I hate to be cynical, but this is the Bush
Administration, which views all things in terms of
political gain and personal and corporate profit. ALL
things. Turns out there's even a profitable angle to
fighting the avian bird flu. CNN/Money magazine is
reporting today, "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." Dick Cheney
is the former head of Halliburton, the corporation
that has, and continues to make billions from the
never-ending, directionless Iraq War. The more the US
spends in Iraq, the more pocketed by a slew of Bush
Administration cronies and donors. It's apparently the
same for the avian bird flu. The more the US spends on
avian bird flu vaccinations, the more Donald Rumsfeld
and untold other other Bush Administration cronies
will profit. AP filed a report this morning, making
President Bush sound like the sudden, born-again
savior of American public health...."President Bush
outlined a $7.1 billion strategy Tuesday to prepare
for the danger of a pandemic influenza outbreak,
saying he wanted to stockpile enough vaccine to
protect 20 million Americans against the current
strain of bird flu.

The president also said the United States must approve
liability protection for the makers of lifesaving
vaccines." I wonder how much of that $7.1 billion of
taxpayers funds will end up in Donald Rumsfeld's and
other Bush cronies' pockets? And even if the flu
vaccination is faulty and causes disability and death,
they will have NO liability.
It also makes me wonder how much of this extreme hype
is fortuitously-timed Bush-Cheney style scaremongering
and how much is reality. Blogger Dr. Joseph Mercola, a
well-respected, long-time physician, says it's
scaremongering, here at his post, Rumsfeld to Profit
from Avian Flu Hoax. This is a dream come true for the
greedy profiteering friends of the Bush Administraton.
Gosh, if the avian flu is profitable enough, maybe
they can start winding down the Iraq War. For an
excellent site with extensive info on the profiteering
of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and
cronies from war, natural disaster and now health
pandemic, visit CorpWatch's War Profiteers.





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