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Bush wants right to use military if bird flu hits
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of ABC/Reuters
ABC/Reuters, October 4, 2005
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1183192
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1183192
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. "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. The active duty military is currently forbidden from undertaking law enforcement duties by the federal Posse Comitatus Act.
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