From Montana, I kid you not.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer has touched off a political fight with Montana Republicans after calling for the return of National Guard troops serving in Iraq to help out in what many fear will be a record-setting wildfire season.
The reasons for those wildfires? I'd say it's a healthy combination of global warming and Bush's Healthy (cut down trees to give money to the logging industry and make it easier for wildfires to occur by doing so) Forests Act. This is both a good slap in Bush's foreign and environmental policies, and a good way to establish a frame by linking two seemingly disparate issues together.
The full NYT article.
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