Bush shoots horses, doesn't he?

[quaoar]

http://slate.msn.com/id/2113580/

Mustang Sallies
Can America's wild horses survive another four years of Bush?

By Deanne Stillman
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2005, at 12:48 AM PT

Wild horses: run for your lives

George W. Bush styles himself a cowboy president. One job of cowboys is to claim the American wilderness for ranching, so it's little surprise the Bush administration is behind a new effort to suppress—and perhaps slaughter—one of the last symbols of untamed America: our wild horses.

Since 1971, wild horses and burros have been federally protected by the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Protection Act, a pitched battle piece of legislation won in 1971 by Velma Johnston, aka Wild Horse Annie. (Wild Horse Annie was an intrepid Nevada character who, after seeing blood spilling out of a truck that was hauling mustangs to the slaughterhouse, campaigned for the act.) Legend had it that, apart from the war in Vietnam, Congress received more mail about protecting wild horses than about any other issue in its history.

Now the trucks that caught Wild Horse Annie's attention may be revving their engines again, thanks to a stealth rider attached in November to a federal spending bill. The new law, pushed by ranching interests, Western senators, and Bush's Department of the Interior, probably condemns thousands of wild horses to the slaughterhouse—where they're likely to be made into dinner for Europeans.

[elshiva]

1. "wild horses and burros," well

democrats should know this he hates anything to do with donkeys. Capture all wild donkeys! Watch out Dean...

[Kinkistyle]

2. Shrub is deathly afraid of those creatures.

They're all out to get him, I tells ya!

[MrSlayer]

3. Euros eat horses?

Yick. That's like eating a dog or something, it's just not right.