The Military's Job: Quarantining Birds or Guarding Borders?

Surely we have more proper things for the military to be doing. Shouldn't this work be done by doctors, health inspectors, and the like?

Enough pushing government into everything, George W.!!!

AP: Bush Considers Military Role in Flu Fight---

WASHINGTON - President Bush, stirring debate on the worrisome possibility of a bird flu pandemic, suggested dispatching American troops to enforce quarantines in any areas with outbreaks of the killer virus.

Bush asserted aggressive action could be needed to prevent a potentially crippling U.S. outbreak of a bird flu strain that is sweeping through Asian poultry and causing experts to fear it could become the next deadly pandemic. Citing concern that state and local authorities might be unable to contain and deal with such an outbreak, Bush asked Congress to give him the authority to call in the military.

The president has already indicated he wants to give the armed forces the lead responsibility for conducting search-and-rescue operations and sending in supplies after massive natural disasters and terrorist attacks — a notion that could require a change in law and that even some in the Pentagon have reacted to skeptically. The idea raised the startling-to-some image of soldiers cordoning off communities hit by disease.

"The president ought to have all ... assets on the table to be able to deal with something this significant," Bush said during a 55 minute question-and-answer session with reporters in the sun-splashed Rose Garden.

Heres a thought for what to do with the military, PUT THE TROOPS ON THE BORDERS!!!

If we are all dead because terrorists slip in through our sieve-like borders, then it won't matter if chickens take over.