Sir, - I hate to disillusion J.P. Scanlan, but money is guiding President Bush's decisions, not principle. One look at the source of his rich campaign coffers spells out BIG OIL and CORPORATE AMERICA. His decisions on the Kyoto treaty, EPA regulations, desire for broad authority to negotiate trade treaties, and his push for oil-drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge all point to giving oil companies and corporate America bigger profit margins at the expense of average Americans. Let us not be so facile as to say that principle ever rules in politics. - Yours, etc.,
Allison Phayre, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.