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Monday, July 16, 2007

By Mitch Albom
Detroit Free Press (MCT)


Former Surgeon General Richard
Carmona
U.S. Gov. photo
We can be a pretty lazy nation, but one thing that gets us riled up is our health, right?

When a baby is sick, look out. When a father or mother isn't getting good care, we scream. When we find our water is being poisoned, or something we're ingesting causes cancer, we get angry.

Don't we?

So why have we been so silent after the former surgeon general of the United States just testified that the Bush administration repeatedly muzzled him, ignored him or told him not to issue reports?