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<br /> Zs inspections post-war period. Americans can be dertake during a catastrophe such as 1 be
<br /> :d the develop- optimistic that the troops will leave this, information and referral and War gloating inappropriate tar
<br /> lass destruction Iraq soon, having created a stable case management services serving
<br /> f any stockpiles and democratic government. But a single adults and childless couples get Cowboy guest columnist Mike
<br /> exist. broader type of optimism should not thrown overboard first. Sterling's April 20 gloat/rant was a mo
<br /> res
<br /> Still' Iournal be among the war's casualties—the Equally important, note that pub- little premature, don't you think? lar
<br /> rgc .nt. The optimism that the United States' licly funded early intervention and Didn't he have fun declaring total vic- ear
<br /> tha. ,.lose who greatest power lies in its ideals,and prevention programs are becoming tory over the"W-haters"who opposed leg
<br /> history in our county, though it is the Bush administration's approach ler
<br /> ips even reflex- an exception the use of armed might will practicebe common knowledge that money spent to dealing with Saddam Hussein! But tic
<br /> use of f mer- on orgi to the generalcefpreanow on prevention and early inter- where has Sterling been that he li
<br /> c view of Ameri of encouraging the peaceful spread vention avoids enormous costs later thinks "the humanitarian crisis nev- ME
<br /> wn don'te ,trustthe of those is the notionls.The thatay pessimistic in corrections and enforcement. er developed" and "the Iraqis wel-
<br /> wn devices, the view is the Mao Zedong The question for our county:Do we corned their liberators"? en
<br /> int and military was right in saying that power flows choose to act as a lifeboat,tossing our If I shared Sterling's opinions, I thi
<br /> way that leaves from the barrel of a gun. most vulnerable populations into the think I would wait a while before de- do
<br /> ocean of this budget crisis, or do we daring that"the war did not widen," bl�
<br /> canbe hunted. choose to take responsibility locally "Turkey stayed put"and, mostire."maz-]rs as masters of our own ship, funding ing of all, Iraq "failed to quagmire." fa:lrlour community priorities at the level Nobody I know is hoping for a quag
<br /> they deserve? mire or more bloodshed,but many of la,
<br /> pose a threat can be legally killed •
<br /> KATE O'DONNELL,Chair us who Sterling calls his "enemies" is
<br /> Budget Committee have doubts that the U.S. bullying of
<br /> that set the Arab world ne
<br /> cougar might in- legally, and it's likely that the cop- Lane County Human that
<br /> t hase non-Arab world d ldand muchh tic
<br /> a child are pre- gar spotted near Triangle Lake Services Commission endoft in the sort of againstAmerican-ruled us m
<br /> Eugene
<br /> he primary rea- School is now dead. world Nirvana that Sterling thinks megon Legislature Oregon doesn't have a law has arrived. th
<br /> w against using against hunting cougars.It has a law in celebration Of trees s Whatever the end result of this to
<br /> s.It's a little like against hunting cougars with dogs war,the United States having its way ju
<br /> n shouldget rid for sport. The number of cougars As a resident of south Eugene,.I or chaos and quagmire, glee or gloat-
<br /> ;elf-service gaso- killed by hunters has risen since have been delighted to see that the Eu-
<br /> from being hurt voters approved the dog hunting gene Tree Foundation and the city's ing are not appropriate responses to et
<br /> the death and deprivation on this sr
<br /> a misplaced re- ban. Neighborwoods program are at it road we've chosen. n�
<br /> le threat. again.
<br /> Last year, hunters killed 230 of Earlier this month, they planted JIM WATSON
<br /> ar ^ht pounce the cats. That's not counting the 110 trees in the place of concrete in that Eugene
<br /> - t ist docu killed by landowners like the one in barren block of 18th Avenue between
<br /> -eg, curred in Blachly who needed to protect live- Oak and Pearl streets. Recently, they Contradiction close to home Li
<br /> minor injuries. stock. The ODFW or its contract got together to celebrate Arbor Week
<br /> fight, it still exists agents killed another 22 cougars that and Eugene's 24th year as a Tree City Every now and then a contradic
<br /> Oregon's law were considered a danger to hu- USA by planting trees along south tion so blatant comes along that it .o:
<br /> sugars with dogs mans,and could have done the same Willamette Street between 25th and begsg
<br /> to be exposed.
<br /> by voters in 1994 in Blachly if the sighting seemed to 27th avenues. just t not how Washington can g
<br /> 996,would not re- indicate a serious threat. I look forward to enjoying and ben- spend tens of billions of tandollars on A
<br /> • threat cougars B
<br /> Paul Beier, a professor of censer- efiting from these new trees for.years liberating Iraqi oil while the U.S. s
<br /> life, livestock or vation and wildlife biology at the to come. economy and infrastructure•crumble b
<br /> dressed effective- University of Northern Arizona,not MARGARET WIESE ,1-2 -03 —.that's so obvious it needs no fur- c
<br /> xisting laws. ther discussion. This issue is much 1
<br /> ed •
<br /> in a March 31 open letter than a Eugene closer to home.
<br /> s in the Blachly well-managed hunting program
<br /> Here we have news of two Univer- n
<br /> nt. A cougar was might take 5 percent of the cougar Bunker-busted liberation sity of Oregon developments: S
<br /> rr Triangle Lake population yearly. This reduction, first is a probable tuition increase The
<br /> to apprehensions however, would be offset by im- It sure looks like victory in Iraq. 14 percent over the next two years, c
<br /> ety. The superin- 'proved survival rates among the re- The Iraqis, taking their bunker- significanth financial a
<br /> ichly School Dis- maining cougars. busted liberation out for a test drive, addingtalready struggling students.burdensns i
<br /> thing and called Sport hunting might, in fact, held their biggest ever national dem is a $150
<br /> lent of Fish and make the cougar threat worse.Beier onstration in Baghdad. They want second is a 50 million replacement f t
<br /> the sighting. The wrote that trophy hunters tend to both Saddam Hussein and the United of McArthur
<br /> department'sCoforthebenefit and t
<br /> tware that cougarStates to leave. Seems like these folks the athletict.Of course,we're r budgetssurand t
<br /> kill adult male cougars, while fe- have learned a lot about democracy in I
<br /> n Oregon, said it males and yearlings are responsible a short period of time,without our to funds will come entirely from
<br /> !ss the cat had ac- for most of the few attacks that have tering.Or maybe in spite of it. wealthy donors and won't cost tax- r
<br /> thing threatening occurred.Hunting might actually in The Iraqis have a lot to demon- payers,who are compelled to support c
<br /> crease the proportion of attack strate against. First,there are the un- academic programs, a cent. Well, not '
<br /> Nus killed in the prone cougars in Oregon's
<br /> numbered thousands of killed and unless you count those handy state
<br /> ea, however, the wildlands. maimed children and civilians, many bonds and the possibility of cost over '
<br /> th L.sugar that Unless the state pursues a policy still lying under collapsed houses and runs the
<br /> let's gat fret about But,acts are out.
<br /> avEde he at- of eradication, cougar sightings will buildings within the present U.S.- carpe fie
<br /> hat
<br /> me cougars — occur, and the remote possibility of arranged chaos. So much for smart just now. Think instead of the eco-
<br /> offspring,of the an attack will remain. But whatever bombs,an oxymoron for sure.
<br /> nomic payoff.
<br /> led after they at- threat cougars presented in the There are the murdered and After all, we all know studentto
<br /> s,
<br /> it. Blachly area has been dealt with ef- wounded international journalists once graduated, don'tneeo
<br /> gars were killed fectively under existing law.
<br /> targeted by our Department of the local economy. They don't
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