WHITE HOUSE MEMORANDUM EXPOSES ROVE KNEW OF PROBLEMS WITH ANTHRAX VACCINE...(Raw Story)

[kpete]

White House memo exposes Rove knew of problems with anthrax vaccine
Allen McDuffee
Published: Thursday August 7, 2008


Rove said Gulf War Syndrome, vaccine political stumbling block

The Department of Defense continued its controversial mandatory anthrax vaccinations program despite high ranking Bush administration officials acknowledging there were problems with the vaccine within months of the Bush administration being in office—well before the attacks of 9/11 and the October 2001 anthrax letters.

A 2001 memorandum from former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove to then-Defense Undersecretary Paul Wolfowitz indicates that the White House knew of problems relating to the Gulf War Syndrome and the military's controversial anthrax vaccine.

Obtained by RAW STORY earlier this year from a senior military official and exposed in today's New York Daily News, "I do think we need to examine the issues of both Gulf War Syndrome and the Anthrax vaccine and how they can be dealt with," Rove wrote. "They are political problems for us."

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the military official who leaked the memo said, "It didn't bother me that Rove referred to it as a political problem at the time because it meant that it would be properly dealt with, finally. The political problem became a problem to me when they dropped the ball and allowed the program to continue. It was politics that motivated them to investigate and it was politics that motivated them to allow the program to continue. Now the political nature bothers me."

more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Memo_shows_White_House_knew_of_0807.html

[Muttocracy]

1. and would that be why he took prophylactic Cipro instead of being vaccinated? nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. Do you know who ordered the Cipro to be taken long before the anthrax attacks?

I haven't seen a name pegged to that one just the fact that they did it.

[Muttocracy]

12. someone listed a name in another thread on DU, but I don't know . nt

[malaise]

14. Rumsfeld a major shareholder n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. I knew it was a shareholder and was on the board at one time

But I wonder about the memo or Cipro directive and where and who it came from.
It had to be on either an e-mail or written memo.

[malaise]

16. Neither do I

Someone will find it - I'm sure of that.

[rateyes]

2. Another act of treason on the part of Rove and the administration.

And, Pelosi continues to yawn.

[robertpaulsen]

3. K & R!

:kick:

[alstephenson]

4. k & r

[MuseRider]

5. "Political problems for us"

How cute.

Played like they have played everything in our country, like a freaking football game. From the stopping the clock during the vote counting acting like it was all a game to those idiotic and pathetic terrorist trading cards. How anyone could have made it through those trading cards with any respect for these guys is not something I can understand.

Political problem for them. My god, that just says it all.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. How definite is it understood that the anthrax vaccine was the result

of Gulf War Syndrome?

[mzmolly]

7. GWS is not even fully acknowledged as a legit health issue.

And Depleted Uranium is another possibility according to some.

[wordpix]

9. I thought depleted uranium weapons WERE the cause

[mzmolly]

11. My guess, is that there may be more than one issue, producing various symptoms?

:shrug:

[mzmolly]

8. Scientists have linked GW Illness to the aluminum adjuvant, which is also used to produce Gardasil.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17114826

Just an FYI.

Edited for speeeeling. ;)

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

13. K&R.