"When planning military operations abroad, there is a need and a responsibility to check for potential microorganisms that could be introduced into foreign lands, and to take measures to prevent them from spreading,"
LOL! . . . Oh, brother. The hate America crowd is losing it.
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To: LibWhacker
The disease can be contained, says Stenlid, by spraying anti-fungal agents onto exposed stumps or bark to block the fungi's point of entry into the tree. When conifers are pruned or thinned, their exposed surfaces can be treated immediately to lower the risk of infection, says Stenlid.If this is the case why the hell didn't they start spraying before the trees started dying? and I swear the world just wants to hate us, no matter what. They figure any excuse will do.
Red
2 posted on
04/06/2004 11:54:44 PM PDT by
Conservative4Ever
(EVIL.......thy name is Hillary)
To: LibWhacker
*gasp!*
3 posted on
04/06/2004 11:56:31 PM PDT by
AntiGuv
(When the countdown hits zero, something's gonna happen..)
To: LibWhacker
They wrote the headline wrong. It should have been, More Victims of the WWII Axis. Or, More Victims of Italian Facism. It is not like the US was a bunch of tourist coming over there because we wanted to be there.
4 posted on
04/06/2004 11:57:18 PM PDT by
JLS
To: LibWhacker
Sheesh. We had more important things to do in 1944 than check crates for fungus.
5 posted on
04/06/2004 11:57:32 PM PDT by
MediaMole
To: LibWhacker
The US Army may have unwittingly killed hundreds of pine trees in an Italian hunting estate. Genetic analysis suggests that the trees were infected with an American fungus, imported by US troops during the Second World War. We defeated the Nazi Axis and all these idjits can yammer about sixty years later are their frickin' TREES??
Just when I think the Eurotwits can't sink any lower...
6 posted on
04/06/2004 11:58:16 PM PDT by
Prime Choice
(Leftists claim Bush is a terrorist. So why aren't they trying to appease him?)
To: LibWhacker
"When planning military operations abroad, there is a need and a responsibility to check for potential microorganisms that could be introduced into foreign lands, and to take measures to prevent them from spreading", says Garbelotto.
We're really sorry, Mr. Garbelotto. We were so preoccupied fighting and dying to liberate Italy from the Nazis that we forgot all about doing a fungal analysis of our shipping crates. We hope you can forgive us.
7 posted on
04/07/2004 12:03:19 AM PDT by
Polybius
To: LibWhacker
"When planning military operations abroad, there is a need and a responsibility to check for potential microorganisms that could be introduced into foreign lands, and to take measures to prevent them from spreading," says Garbelotto. Okay. Sounds good to me. The next time some a**hole decides it his turn to conquer the world, before we (again) militarily engage the enemy, we will call in Greenpeace, PETA, ELF (and hundreds of others) to do an environmental impact study. That should only take about 10 years (more if the Area of Operations is "hot).
This has two benefits:
1. No soldiers will die during the study (except of course by natural causes), and
2. It will help thin the Environnazi population.
PS: JF'nK would probably SUPPORT this!
8 posted on
04/07/2004 12:06:43 AM PDT by
An.American.Expatriate
(A vote for JF'nK is a vote for Peace in our Time!)
To: LibWhacker
In the 1940s the Italians were doing some "exporting" themselves. Yenakievo, East Ukraine has a big Italian military cemetary.
To: LibWhacker
I am getting so tired of these U.S.-is-responsible muck. Would they have rather we left them to Mussolini?
10 posted on
04/07/2004 12:12:32 AM PDT by
Ruth A.
To: LibWhacker
You know, the liberals keep screaming to bring back the draft (mostly to appease their usually ignored Black and Hispanic supporters)... I think that it's time we give them some time on the soapbox.. It strikes me that if these idle folks at Berkley, Harvard, Rutgers, etc were given a couple years in the military, they might have a bit of an appreciation of the fact that usually studying wood with a microscope on the off chance that a fungus that would kill a tree in twenty years might be there.
11 posted on
04/07/2004 12:39:29 AM PDT by
kingu
(Which would you bet on? Iraq and Afghanistan? Or Haiti and Kosovo?)
To: LibWhacker
And other countries have introduced: starlings, kudzu, zebra nussels, dutch elm disease and many more things to ours.
12 posted on
04/07/2004 12:56:53 AM PDT by
Wacka
To: LibWhacker
You know what bigotry is? It's an Italian forest.
Big-a tree.
To: LibWhacker
Guys guys guys...
I think y'all might be getting a persecution complex.
It's just a dumb article written so an Italian can get his tenure...what's the problem?
Or are we in the bleacher seats? If we are I'll load my balloon launcher and get ready to let rip.
14 posted on
04/07/2004 1:59:09 AM PDT by
Tredge
To: LibWhacker
This intentional act of arbicide by our troops has pushed me over the edge. Where is Hillary to save us all? What a world!
15 posted on
04/07/2004 2:43:35 AM PDT by
Caipirabob
(Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
To: LibWhacker
Oh PUH-LEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZE!!!!
This is the epitomy of anti-American insanity. How many friggin' Italian trees were blown to smithereens by bombs, artillery and hand grenades??
Must be a slow week for the anti-American enviro-nazis.
16 posted on
04/07/2004 2:43:59 AM PDT by
DustyMoment
(Repeal CFR NOW!!)
To: LibWhacker
Don't you think you people are just slightly over-reacting to this article? The spread of invasive species is a huge problem worldwide - one of the other posters mentioned several notorious US invaders. Don't you think the southern states could do without fire ants and Africanized bees, or foresters in the northeast wish the Gypsy moth or elm disease or chestnut blight had never been introduced? The author studied the problem and made a recommendation on future prevention, that's all. That's his job as a scientist.
To: mhking
Just damn?
20 posted on
04/07/2004 6:11:41 AM PDT by
TaxRelief
(Become a dollar-a-day donor and help end the quarterly fundraisers!)
To: LibWhacker
We should be blaming the Europeans for all the Norway rats they transported over here in their rat infested ships from 1500's-1900's.
21 posted on
04/07/2004 7:15:09 AM PDT by
Chewbacca
(I think I will stay single. Getting married is just so 'gay'.)
To: LibWhacker
Our military is involved in major action in Iraq TODAY...and I'm supposed to worry about THIS?
Right.
22 posted on
04/07/2004 7:21:43 AM PDT by
AngryJawa
(Thank You Troops!)
To: LibWhacker
Our military is involved in major action in Iraq TODAY...and I'm supposed to worry about THIS?
Right.
23 posted on
04/07/2004 7:21:46 AM PDT by
AngryJawa
(Thank You Troops!)
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