[Cicero]

BioPort was one of the most horrible scandals of the clinton administration. I can't believe that Bush is going to go ahead and permit them to continue doing business with the government under his administration. It could turn his good relations with the military around on a dime. Clinton used every mob technique in the book to cover this up. Is Bush prepared to do the same? Does he expect the press to cooperate with him the way it did with clinton? Is he prepared to have more key officers quit the military rather than to submit to another compulsory vaccination scheme?

I'm delighted that the Times has decided to publish this article, maybe the first time that the major media have looked into this mess frankly.

[brityank]

It could turn his good relations with the military around on a dime.

I wonder just how much President Bush is aware of the potential ramifications this decision could have. I have seen too many testimonies, such as the one presented by Major Sonny Bates, to believe that this is good practice. I have no problem with qualified vaccinations; this one is not qualified, and our troops are too valuable to be used as pin-cushions and test-subjects to prove to the general public that the government knows what it is doing.