The Obama White House is backtracking on giving detainees at Guantanamo Bay H1N1 vaccine.
Just 48 hours ago, Team Obama wasn't backing down.
Terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base will soon get swine flu vaccines, despite complaints that American civilians should have priority, a military spokesman said Sunday.
Army Maj. James Crabtree, a spokesman for the U.S. jail facility in southeast Cuba, said the doses should start arriving this month, with guards and then inmates scheduled for inoculations.
He acknowledged there may be an "emotional response" from critics who argue that terror suspects should not be allocated swine-flu medications while members of the U.S. public are still waiting due to a vaccine shortage.
But he said U.S. military officials are "responsible for the health and care of the detainee population."
Medical personnel at Guantanamo requested the doses, but Crabtree said he did not know how many.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House says detainees at Guantanamo Bay are not receiving vaccinations against the swine flu vaccine.
Robert Gibbs on Tuesday said concern that terrorism suspects at the U.S. naval base in Cuba were receiving vaccines was misplaced. Gibbs says no vaccines are at the naval base and none are on the way. A spokesman for the U.S. jail facility a day earlier said guards and then inmates were scheduled for inoculations. Critics were fast to object, saying U.S. civilians were waiting for vaccines while suspected terrorists were being given injections.
There's an important lesson here.
When the public rises up, Obama will jump.
He's not a leader.
Another lesson--
The Obama White House makes some really idiotic decisions. It's amateur hour.
He also appears to be very aware that he can't afford to piss off anyone with his popularity dwindling and Americans becoming more and more disappointed by him.
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