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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (446377)	8/21/2003 8:19:28 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

That sounds like a personal attack. Even you would not be that stupid. Oops... too late...

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (446377)	8/21/2003 10:55:13 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

There is a wild fire right now near Carnation WA, a suburb of Seattle. The fire is burning brush on a clear cut. When they clear cut a forest, they leave a lot of slash and logs which dry out in the summer heat. This serves as kindling for the wild fire which now threatens the forest. I am suspicious of the Bush plan for thinning. If they take out the small trees and leave the big ones that are fire proof, it's ok but I don't trust them to do that because Bush is owned by the timber industry.

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (446377)	8/22/2003 3:03:20 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

Bald Eagle, Re: Bush's plan would stop these wildfires from spreading. How stupid are these people (and you)? The joke that is going around is that the HFI doesn't stand for Healthy Forests Initiative. Nope, it really means Horizontal Forests Inititiative. Perhaps if you dug down below the attractive headlines of Bush's cheerleading for forest thinning, you would see the thinly veiled effort by Bush to use this bill to clear-cut some of few remaining stands of pristine virgin forest in the West. We've already cut down about 98% of the primeval forest in Washington, Oregon and Idaho that held merchantable timber, so why not go for 100%, eh? Bush's plan does nothing to solve the real problem that the nation faces, which is (for the most part) the impact that weedy overgrown forests have on human habitation and improvements in the urban-wildland interface. No, Bush's scheme doesn't address this real problem. It just happens to be a sneaky way to create opportunities for his bribers to rip out the last of the remaining old growth, and call it what it is not. Typical for Bush, the bait-and-switch pResident who can't pass up a good campaign slogan, and won't fund any real programs for the people.