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War of words we will not win
by John Maginnis - posted E-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
Was it a mere a coincidence that on the same afternoon
a federal judge in New Orleans struck down the six-month drilling moratorium in the Gulf, the
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service shut down the state's sand berm construction project off the Chandeleur Islands?

Or that before that moratorium was enjoined, the chairman of the presidential
commission on the Gulf disaster was open to making interim recommendations that could allow drilling to resume within six months, but then he dismissed that possibility after the ruling?

Perhaps it's unrealistic to think federal agencies could so orchestrate their actions, a capability that's often been missing from their response to the oil spill disaster so far. But it doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to connect the dots.

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