Bush: Military may have to help if bird flu breaks out
President Bush says the possibility of an avian flu pandemic is among the reasons he wants Congress to give him the power to use the nation's military in law enforcement roles in the United States.
"I'm concerned about what an avian flu outbreak could mean for the United States and the world," he told reporters during a Rose Garden news conference on Tuesday.
Such an event would raise difficult questions, such as how a quarantine might be enforced, he said.
[The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 bans the military from participating in police-type activity on U.S. soil.
CNN reported Bush began discussing the possibility of changing the law last month, in the aftermath of the government's sluggish response to civil unrest following Hurricane Katrina. However many of the tales of civil unrest at evacuation sites appear to be rumors]
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