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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (407)	8/15/2004 10:17:05 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 27181

Kerry on Iraq The candidate betrays his pre-9/11 mentality. opinionjournal.com

To: calgal who wrote (407)	8/15/2004 10:17:16 PM
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JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL Part-Time Pols It looks like Schwarzenegger may be preparing to put a tough reform agenda on the ballot. opinionjournal.com

To: calgal who wrote (407)	8/16/2004 8:20:27 AM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

Hardly. We who live in coal producing states live every day with the environmental devastation that comes with lax regulation. Unfilled strip mine pits, streams flowing orange from acid mine drainage, huge black culm piles scaring the landscape, abandoned shafts endangering our children, workers hacking and coughing from black lung disease, the hundreds of dollars per year we pay for insurance to protect our homes from mine subsidence... the list goes on and on. Kerry's long advocated stringent pollution controls may not be popular with the coal industry, but they are seen as common sense and necessary by those who have lived and worked in the shadow of King Coal. With oil at $46 a barrel, we can easily afford the few cents a ton it costs to mine and burn coal in an environmentally safe manner. The only reason to oppose tough environmental regulations is simple corporate greed. John Kerry's enthusiasms for job-destroying environmental regulations could cost him the battleground states of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia where coal mining is a major industry.