Friday, February 06, 2004

The anti-terror President cuts building decontamination research

You know him. The one who promised to protect Americans, and keeps reminding us that by invading Iraq that's what he's doing.

President Bush asked Congress to eliminate an $8.2 million research program on how to decontaminate buildings attacked by toxins — the same day a poison-laced letter shuttered Senate offices.

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

In the documents, the agency said that losing the research money would "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."
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....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.

Not to change the subject, but I find it interesting that the SOTU speech is on the White House website in English, Spanish, and Arabic.

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