Obama Administration Gets an “F”

[Caesar]

The absence of a comprehensive U.S. capability to rapidly recognize, respond to and recover from a disease-based attack is the most "significant failure" identified in the final "report card" issued this morning by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.

The country lacks the technical and operational capabilities required for an "adequate" response to a bioterror attack, the 19-page document states.

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This would have a really bad effect on the economy, at the cost of about 1 trillion per attack. this was said on CBS today from some expert.

[WoIverine]

This would have a really bad effect on the economy, at the cost of about 1 trillion per attack. this was said on CBS today from some expert.

Wonder what the chances are of us seeing ocurrences of said attacks if national health care doesn't pass. The economy is already in bad shape.

Edited January 26, 2010 by SpiderCyde