Bush bound and determined to use the military for domestic action

this guy keeps talking about using the military for domestic response... doesn't ANYBODY find this a little troubling...?

President George W. Bush suggested using the military to contain any epidemic of avian influenza on Tuesday, saying Congress needs to consider the possibility.

He said the military, perhaps the National Guard, might be needed to enforce quarantines if the feared H5N1 bird flu virus changes enough to cause widespread human infection.

gee... do ya think...? could he possibly mean...?

"The translation of this is martial law in the United States," Redlener [Dr. Irwin Redlener, associate dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and director of its National Center for Disaster Preparedness] said.

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