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I'm just wondering.........why did he bring this up yesterday during what was supposed to be a discussion on Miers nomination. [I think] With the use of military forces just recently approved during Katrina and Rita on US soil, are we now getting ready to pick up the sick and transport them to camps? IMO quarantines won't work. How can you quarantine a large city? It seems to me that taking the sick away would probably be their method of quarantine.

WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday to consider giving him powers to use the military to enforce quarantines in case of an avian influenza epidemic.

He said the military, and perhaps the National Guard, might be needed to take such a role if the feared H5N1 bird flu virus changes enough to cause widespread human infection.

"If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that part of the country? And how do you, then, enforce a quarantine?" Bush asked at a news conference.

Just In.....CNN... Fort Bragg arrests, two Indonesian ILLEGALS caught. One more to be added to the deportee hearing. Showed forged documents when hired. None of them had access to classified info. [yeah right]

I don't see how quarantines could possibly work, not in this day.........unless extreme measures were taken......and I don't even want to think about that.

Removing only the ill for quarantine would still leave the exposed able to spread the virus.

We are a global economy. International travel is necessary to sustain that economy. Can you imagine the howls of protest from Wall Street and businesses if that access to travel were terminated?

But, I fear it may come to be.

Why is the President discussing this now? He knows the risks and is frightened for our future. I am too.

This was mentioned on the talk shows last night, don't think I know which one, the opinion was that the town its self or areas of it would be locked down by the Military.

Martial law.

The statement that stuck with me was "What is the use in locking down a town, if there is a disease outbreak, when the border is open?"

Reaching for the tinfoil, before saying this.

We have had all these 'strange smells' reports, does the President know what was smelled and that there is going to be an outbreak in 10 days????

We have identified germs in Washington D.C. at that rally.

There is no question that it can happen, the President knows what he is doing, I suspect, he knows he is going to need legal control.

No, I do not like the thought, as if hilary had the right to use the military, it would be a disaster, there would be no freedom in America.

They are talking about Terry Nichols 23 year old son having been arrested in Las Vegas, stolen car, and the Police had to Taser gun him......I missed part of the story, a hit and run or an accident, as the name didn't register at first.

He is still in Jail ()Terry) for the OKC bombing.