Bird Flu as topic changing

Now, lemme get this straight. Bush withheld a plan to combat Bird Flu until he needed to change the subject from the Libby indictment? Certainly, the warnings about the Avian Flu from within the US government go back well over 18 months, but Bush waited until now to develop a plan?

I haven't read the plan yet, maybe I'll comment on it later, but the absolute crassness of this just got to me. Playing politics with people's lives.