It appears that John Major's handling of Mad Cow ruined him and his party

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http://static.elibrary.com/n/newstatesmanampsociety/march291996/killedbymadcowdiseasebovinespongiformencephalopath/

New Statesman & Society : Killed by mad cow disease. (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, possible end of Tory government in the U.K.)(Editorial) :

Forget arms-to-Iraq, cash-for-questions, homes-for-votes in Westminster, or any of the other scandals that various pundits have claimed would mark the beginning of the end for John Major's shabby administration- -mad cow disease trumps them all. The official admission last week that there might , just might , be a connection between bovine spongiform encephilopathy in cattle and one variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in humans--BSE and CJD--has had a far more dramatic impact in undermining public faith in the government than anything else it has done. Everywhere , people are asking the same questions. If some respected scientists have been saying for several years that there might be some connection between eating BSE-infected beef and contracting CJD , a fatal neurological illness , why on earth did ministers and their advisers ignore them , claiming beef was entirely safe? Why was the programme for eliminating B S E pursued so half-heartedly? And how many of us are going to

http://www.zurichmednet.org/development/BritishWronglyLulledPeopleonMadCow.htm

British Wrongly Lulled People on 'Mad Cow,' Report Finds

LONDON, Oct. 26 — For 10 years, British officials consistently misled the public by deliberately playing down the possibility that mad-cow disease could be transmitted to humans, an official report said today.

The 4,000-page report, published after a three-year investigation, took care not to single out individuals for blame in its chronicle of government missteps and misstatements.

But its authors, led by Lord Phillips, severely criticized the "culture of secrecy" that characterized the government's response to a crisis that has wreaked havoc with Britain's once-proud beef industry, forced the slaughter of almost four million cows and led to the deaths so far of 77 Britons.

In its effort not to alarm consumers, the report said, the government sought to insulate them from unpleasant information, using "an approach whose object was sedation."

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[NJCher]

1. the incredible thing is

That even in the "bush administration" wanted to be straightforward and honest about this, they wouldn't be able to do it because they don't know how. They have no model. It would totally confuse them and turn their house of cards upside down.

It is also mind-boggling that one of the articles says Britain can't rule out tens of thousands having CJD.


Cher

[Tansy_Gold]

2. "Culture of secrecy"

Well, see, we're perfectly safe in the U.S. because we don't have that. No, not at all.

sheesh.

[number6]

3. that qualifies him for the Carlyle Team

http://www.thecarlylegroup.com/eng/team/l4-team1471.html

part of the Bushco crime family and Associates