I don't believe Pickles food poisoning story

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/18/animalwelfare.usa

Thai mouse to risk life for Bush in last line of bio-chemical defence

John Aglionby in Bangkok

The Guardian, Saturday 18 October 2003 01.48 BST

A humble mouse is to put its life on a plate for US president George Bush this weekend - acting as his official food taster to thwart any attempt at a bio-chemical assasination.

The rodent is one of 10 selected by the authorities in Thailand, where Mr Bush is starting a four-day visit today, and will be served samples of food which the president will eat.

According to Thai officials, the mouse will nibble on Thai dishes and then be observed to see if it drops dead or suffers any ill effects.

The director-general of the health ministry's medical sciences department, Somsong Rakpao, said no chances could be taken when it comes to protecting the world's most powerful man.

"We will collect samples of all the food and bring them to our labs," he said. "Some will be fed to the mice, some will be mixed into a clear solution and injected into their intraperitoneal cavity."

[Lex]

1. I don't believe anything George or Laura Bush say. nt

[Kookaburra]

7. Me neither

They're pathological. That whole family wouldn't know the truth if it slapped them in the face.

[fishwax]

13. that's a wise strategy n/t

[FSogol]

2. Didn't Bush go on an overseas trip where the Service Service bagged all his poop

and urine? Sounds like Pickles and W are quite paranoid.

[WhiteTara]

3. I'd say they got drunk and were hung over

which can feel like being poisoned. Alcohol poisoning can kill.

[spanone]

4. worse, i don't care

[LiberalFighter]

5. I have absolutely no sympathy for Laura Bush or any family member.

[City Lights]

6. I thought he had food tasters.

Sounds like Laura's :tinfoilhat: is a tad bit tight.

[malaise]

8. The bigger issue is going to be the reaction of the German people

who are already threatening Merkel over that war in Afghanistan.
This will get really ugly and very soon.

[rfranklin]

9. Will the mouse stand in for the rat?

just wondering.

[lumberjack_jeff]

10. A better biological match might be found in a weasel. n/t

[Turbineguy]

11. If the mouse didn't die

did Bush get to stuff a firecracker up its ass and blow it up?

[Ratty]

12. Someone just farted in her food

It happens.

[gratuitous]

14. Oh tush!

Let us not allow so important a tome to be subject to the petty vagaries of so-called "fact" checking. It is well known that facts, which have a notably liberal bias, can be used by the "gotcha" journalistas to prove anything that's even remotely true, and should therefore not be given too much credence. Far better to savor Mrs. Bush's prose and allow it to wash over us as an all-enveloping cloud of mustard gas. And the goggles? No, they do nothing.