Send the marines!

In honor of Pandemic Flu Preparedness Week (see prev.) the Bush administration has announced a new plan for combatting the problem: use the military.

He said the military, perhaps the National Guard, might be needed to enforce quarantines if the feared H5N1 bird flu virus changes enough to cause widespread human infection.

Because (a) why try to prevent or cure a problem when you can just keep it far away from you, and (b) those guys aren't doing anything right now, are they? eesh.

(via dangerous meta)

Update: Bob Harris takes a poll on other moves the Bushies might make...