Donuel, please note that your link is four years old and even at that time, Donald Rumsfeld was the former CEO of the corporation and that it was Gilead Sciences that was the sole patent owner of Tamiflu, not Rumsfeld himself. ( I never know whether you like pot stirring or if you actually believe everyt;hing you write.)

From the link: "Rumsfeld — as a stock holder and former CEO of Gilead Sciences Inc., the sole patent owner of Tamiflu, the antiviral drug now being stockpiled by the Defense Department and other agencies — stands to make millions of dollars if legislation is passed that allocates additional federal money to stockpile the anti-viral medications."

"I also noticed how New Orleans meant nothing to George Bush. As he looked out of his jet window he said "Boy, I bet its twice as bad on the ground!"

As you know, I'm not a dubya Bush fan but that is not precisely what Bush said, as you also know. I think that in all likelihood that was one of those occasions when Bush, given his speech-mangling proclivities, misspoke. He is not the most articulate of men at the best of times and in the emotion of the times coherent speech may have failed him utterly.

Like my mother once reported: "And the cannons went BING!