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To: goldworldnet who wrote (38)	3/18/2006 3:01:26 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Why do you isolate the French as a backstabber......there are dozens who refused to join the Bush war.....

To: goldworldnet who wrote (38)	3/18/2006 5:13:27 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 14758

The French turned out to be right. And now the French are fighting bravely in Afghanistan. Time to lay off the French. We need them. And don't forget what Bushies were really fighting about with the French, Elf-Aquitaine's big oil deal with Saddam. Bushies wanted to terminate it and take all the oil for themselves. And they did. But the US taxpayers get zippo from it. We pay all the bills but get none of the benefits.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (38)	3/20/2006 1:24:27 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Actually, I'd call Bush and his political opportunists the real "backstabbers." In fact, they're backstabbing on science and against the welfare of people on earth. Read the entire article about the 60 Minutes Interview below--I've provided an excerpt for emphasis: Message 22274770 >>>Piltz says he is responsible for editing the report and sending a review draft to the White House. Asked what happens, Piltz says: "It comes back with a large number of edits, handwritten on the hard copy by the chief-of-staff of the Council on Environmental Quality." Asked who the chief of staff is, Piltz says, "Phil Cooney." Piltz says Cooney is not a scientist. "He's a lawyer. He was a lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute, before going into the White House," he says. Cooney, the former oil industry lobbyist, became chief-of-staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Piltz says Cooney edited climate reports in his own hand. In one report, a line that said earth is undergoing rapid change becomes “may be undergoing change.” “Uncertainty” becomes “significant remaining uncertainty.” One line that says energy production contributes to warming was just crossed out. "He was obviously passing it through a political screen," says Piltz. "He would put in the word potential or may or weaken or delete text that had to do with the likely consequence of climate change, pump up uncertainty language throughout." cbsnews.com Oh yeah, you should try to think of how our nation can work better with the French than working against them. Indeed, there are greater concerns on earth than building prejudice.