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

To: TimF who wrote (79005)	8/21/2006 6:23:17 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Timber lobbyists are in the business of cutting down trees. They should not be put in charge of protecting and managing our forests. But over and over Bush lets the foxes into the chicken coops. Like that Exxon guy they hired to falsify the global warming reports at the EPA. The whole Bush cabinet is filled with these industry lobbyists turned regulators who do nothing to regulate.

To: TimF who wrote (79005)	8/22/2006 10:51:27 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

>>You could argue about whether that's accurate or whether the environmentalists in question wouldn't accept any cutting of trees, but the statement does accurately represent the lack of perspective of some "tree-huggers".<< Tim - Rey was using one of the classic propaganda techniques routinely employed by the Bush Administration and its supporters; the "straw man" argument. I doubt very much that anyone things that trees should be named and hugged and taken out of the forest by pallbearers. By claiming that opponents of his policy believe that, Rey makes them all look ridiculous. It's similar to what Bush did during one of his State of the Union speeches when he said "Trusting in the sanity and restraint of Saddam Hussein is not a strategy, and it is not an option." No one had ever suggested trusting in Saddam's sanity and restraint. But to say that made it seem, to less careful listeners, as though they had. - Allen