Why does Leavitt and Bush want Americans to die? Isn't every life precious?

HHS Secretary Leavitt is touring SE Asia and has recognized that sooner or later, the bird flu will become a major problem and there is nothing anyone can do about it except be prepared. What this means is that the world, the US included, should expect around 25% of the population to be infected. In 1918 the pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide, many more than WWI claimed. The 1957 and 1968 flu killed many less but still one million globally.

The question of whether or not this will happen is not even in question for the administration. It's just taken as a given. Fine, we're all together there. The problem is that the US is at the bottom of the list of world nations for preparing to combat this flu when it hits. With a goal of attaining medicine for 2% (as in, we are well short of that feeble percentage) of the US population clearly extraordinary steps need to be taken quickly. No, not with this team, the team that handed over a no-bid contract to Halliburton for cleaning up NOLA even before the stranded people of the city were provided with food and water. See, they could really care less about situations like this despite their talk about "every life is precious" garbage. That's just talk, nothing more.

Kofi Annan has suggested a temporary suspension of patent rules so that other companies can produce more medicine to combat the flu and more people can be saved if it strikes soon. The administration has once again said to hell with saving people, let's help boost profits for Big Pharma who are loving this last minute order. Big Corporates over America's safety, again and again and again and again. Why does the GOP hate America?