Bush Administration forced the Surgeon General to put politics ahead of American health concerns.

This is almost unbelievable!

At every turn this administration ignored science or what was in our best interests and deferred to political concerns instead. This is another example of criminal behavior from this White House. Here are some examples:

• The administration, Dr. Carmona said, would not allow him to speak or issue reports about stem cells, emergency contraception, sex education, or prison, mental and global health issues. Top officials delayed for years and tried to “water down” a landmark report on secondhand smoke, he said. Released last year, the report concluded that even brief exposure to cigarette smoke could cause immediate harm.
• Dr. Carmona said he was ordered to mention President Bush three times on every page of his speeches. He also said he was asked to make speeches to support Republican political candidates and to attend political briefings.
• And administration officials even discouraged him from attending the Special Olympics because, he said, of that charitable organization’s longtime ties to a “prominent family” that he refused to name. The Special Olympics is one of the nation’s premier charitable organizations to benefit disabled people, and the Kennedys have long been deeply involved in it.

If there has ever been a more despicable group of people in the White House I have no idea who they may have been. If we ever get a President worse then this one it will surely signal the end of our country, that is if this one has not already done so.