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

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (518080)	12/31/2003 6:38:24 PM
From: JBTFD	Respond to of 769670

Another very persistent strategy seems to be that if you tell a lie often enough, that people will begin to think it is the truth.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (518080)	12/31/2003 6:46:52 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 769670

Right-wing Republicans puts US health at risk for no good reason. Heck, even expanded testing would only cost a few pennies/pound. washingtonpost.com "...For years, the politically potent and well-financed cattle and meatpacking industries have held sway in the debate over the practice of slaughtering and marketing non-ambulatory, or downer, cattle. They repeatedly blocked efforts by urban Democrats and a handful of moderate Republicans to end the practice -- which provides producers with millions of dollars of profits each year but also represents the biggest potential source of contaminated meat... Democrats said the recent failure to enact a ban on the slaughter of downer animals highlighted the tight linkages between the Bush administration, congressional Republicans and the meat lobby. In 2000, the livestock industry contributed $4.7 million to political campaigns, of which 79 percent went to Republicans...."