U.S. Government Protecting Heparin Killers

From the Wall St Jr, May 10, 2008:

"The Food and Drug Administration is withholding a list of Chinese heparin suppliers requested by congressional investigators looking into problems with tainted supplies of the blood thinner, saying confidentiality agreements prevent release of the companies' names."

The American Idealist simply asks this question:

What kind of government do we have in the United States when the Food and Drug Administration, who functions at the pleasure of the President of the United States, is protecting foreign companies who we suspect of deliberately contaminating a drug to increase their profits? A drug that has killed over 80 people in the United States. A drug that is commonly and widely used in surgical procedures.

The American Idealist says the Bush Administration has its head buried in the sand as it fights phantoms in Iraq, squanders our tax dollars, and resources, and protects its cronies and business partners over the security, welfare and health of citizens of the United States.