It was absoute INSANITY for the US to stop our innoculation program while the acknowledged possiblilty existed for smallpox to be used as a biological weapon. Since 1977 all the CDC did was try to vanquish smoking and take our guns and tell people with AIDS to be careful, and promote the Democratic, liberal agendas. Thank you Jimmy Carter! There will be pleanty of "habitat housing" if Dark Winter occurs and we have 10 million dead.
I hope we can come from behind on this one. The trouble is that liberal health care policies left a window of opportunity where, even if we can come up with enough vaccine, the enemy will have a "use it or loose it" decision. As you can tell, I a really mad about this!
The Republicans had ample chance to reverse it and change the policy; they didn't. This wasn't on anyone's Serious Radar. Can you imagine the pre-9/11 ridicule had GWB even mentioned the issue during his campaign? I might add that there is STILL ample ridicule out there for the idea that we all need to be vaccinated against smallpox. "Chicken Little" graphics have been posted many a time here on FR for this idea as well as any other suggestion that the terrorists continue to hatch new plans.
In short, there are thousands of things that may be blamed quite reasonably upon the liberals alone. I don't think this is one of them. (And JEC was as conservative a Democrat as he could be; his errors don't even come CLOSE to measuring up against WJC's total insanity.)