Irony, thy name is Bush

So how hilarious is it that, with all the anti-Canadian drug rhetoric we've been hearing - see post below dated 10/13/04 - that NOW they're going to purchase flu vaccines from ... wait for it ... CANADA!

Government officials are continuing to contact companies that make flu vaccines for other countries to see whether they have any excess. That includes a Canadian company, ID Biomedical, that may have up to 1.5 million excess doses that might be made available to the United States.

President Bush, in his debate with Senator John Kerry on Wednesday night, referred obliquely to that when he said the government was "working with Canada" to "help us realize the vaccine necessary to make sure our citizens have got flu vaccinations during this upcoming season."

If the Bush administration imports vaccine based just on Canadian approval, that would depart from its opposition to importing drugs from Canada. That would make the administration quite likely to require approval from the Food and Drug Administration.