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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (12470)	4/5/2004 12:32:26 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 81568

Bush Talking Point Email Intercepted, message being Spread Lies About the Environment: Bush campaign: Deny global warming The Observer (U.K.) says it obtained an email sent from the Bush campaign to the "press secretaries of all Republican congressmen advising them what to say when questioned on the environment in the run-up to November's election. The advice: tell them everything's rosy." The email "tells them how global warming has not been proved, air quality is 'getting better', the world's forests are 'spreading, not deadening,' oil reserves are 'increasing, not decreasing,' and the 'world's water is cleaner and reaching more people.' The email -- sent on February 4 -- warns that Democrats will 'hit us hard' on the environment. 'In an effort to help your members fight back, as well as be aggressive on the issue, we have prepared the following set of talking points on where the environment really stands today,' it states." "The memo -- headed 'From medi-scare to air-scare' -- goes on: 'From the heated debate on global warming to the hot air on forests; from the muddled talk on our nation's waters to the convolution on air pollution, we are fighting a battle of fact against fiction on the environment -- Republicans can't stress enough that extremists are screaming "Doomsday!" when the environment is actually seeing a new and better day.' Among the memo's assertions are 'global warming is not a fact', 'links between air quality and asthma in children remain cloudy,' and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is exaggerating when it says that at least 40 per cent of streams, rivers and lakes are too polluted for drinking, fishing or swimming."