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To quote Mr Bush:
"If we wait for threats to fully materialize," Mr. Bush said
at West Point last year, "we will have waited too long."
Also available at:
War Means High Risk for Bush
http://truthout.org/docs_03/030403F.shtml
Shouldn't the same strategy and standards be applied to
dealing with environmental threats as well? After all,
they only endanger the whole planet we live and breathe
on, and tomorrow, it may be way too late as we choke on
the smoke from the burning oil fields of Iraq and the
Green-house effect is exponentially magnified and speeded.
Or, is this perhaps the plan?
> http://truthout.org/docs_03/030503G.shtml
>
> Memo Exposes Bush's New Green Strategy
> Oliver Burkeman
> The Guardian
>
> Tuesday 4 March 2003
>
> The US Republican party is changing tactics on the
> environment, avoiding "frightening" phrases such as global warming,
> after a confidential party memo warned that it is the domestic
> issue on which George Bush is most vulnerable.
>
> The memo, by the leading Republican consultant Frank Luntz,
> concedes the party has "lost the environmental communications
> battle" and urges its politicians to encourage the public in the
> view that there is no scientific consensus on the dangers of
> greenhouse gases.
>
> "The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet
> closed. There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the
> science," Mr Luntz writes in the memo, obtained by the
> Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based campaigning
> organisation.
>
> "Voters believe that there is no consensus about global
> warming within the scientific community. Should the public come to
> believe that the scientific issues are settled, their views about
> global warming will change accordingly.
>
> "Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of
> scientific certainty a primary issue in the debate."
>
> The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of
> "climate change", Mr Luntz says, and the party should describe its
> policies as "conservationist" instead of "environmentalist",
> because "most people" think environmentalists are "extremists" who
> indulge in "some pretty bizarre behaviour... that turns off many
> voters".
>
> Words such as "common sense" should be used, with pro-business
> arguments avoided wherever possible.
>
> The environment, the memo says, "is probably the single issue
> on which Republicans in general - and President Bush in particular
> - are most vulnerable".
>
> A Republican source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
> party strategists agreed with Mr Luntz's conclusion that "many
> Americans believe Republicans do not care about the environment".
>
> The popular image is that they are "in the pockets of
> corporate fat cats who rub their hands together and chuckle
> manically [sic] as they plot to pollute America for fun and
> profit", Mr Luntz adds.
>
> The phrase "global warming" appeared frequently in President
> Bush's speeches in 2001, but decreased to almost nothing during
> 2002, when the memo was produced.
>
> Environmentalists have accused the party and oil companies of
> helping to promulgate the view that serious doubt remains about the
> effects of global warming.
>
> Last week, a panel of experts appointed at the Bush
> administration's request to analyse the president's climate change
> strategy found that it lacked "vision, executable goals, clear
> timetables and criteria for measuring progress".
>
> "Rather than focusing on the things we don't know, it's almost
> as if parts of the plan were written by people who are totally
> unfamiliar with where ecosystems science is coming from," panel
> member William Schlesinger told the Guardian.
>
> Mr Luntz urges Republicans to "emphasise the importance of
> 'acting only with all the facts in hand'", in line with the White
> House position that mandatory restrictions on emissions, as
> required by the Kyoto protocol, should not be countenanced until
> further research is undertaken.
>
> The memo singles out as a major strategic failure the incoming
> Bush administration's response to Bill Clinton's last-minute
> executive order reducing the permitted level of arsenic in drinking
> water from 50 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion.
>
> The new administration put the plan on hold, prompting "the
> biggest public relations misfire of President Bush's first year in
> office", Mr Luntz writes. The perception was that Mr Bush "was
> actively putting in more arsenic in the water".
>
> "A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more
> emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth," Mr
> Luntz notes in the memo.
>
> (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material
> is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior
> interest in receiving the included information for research and
> educational purposes.)
>
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