Armstrong, a member of the President's Cancer Panel since 2002, says "we have the smartest people in the world" working on cures, so his role is to get the funds to keep that research alive.
"Funding is tough to come by these days," he says. "The biggest downside to a war in Iraq is what you could do with that money. What does a war in Iraq cost a week? A billion? Maybe a billion a day? The budget for the National Cancer Institute is four billion. That has to change. It needs to become a priority again.
Damn right. But I guess such talk makes him an unpatriotic cheese-eating surrender athlete. He has spent a lot of time in France, I hear. Time for Swift Cyclists for Truth to stop this man.
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