So, last year at this time my adopted home city (Prague) was under several meters of water after the worst flood in more than 100 years. This year, it's having the hottest summer on record...since the capitol started recorded temperatures in 1775!
On one hand, I wonder if next August will bring a plague of locusts. On the other hand, I think a more likely cause than mythological devine punishment is a general warming trend in the climate, and--more importantly--I wonder if it's caused by human corruption of the environment. A majority of scientists around the globe think it is the latter; George Bush, of course, does not.
When we're able to spend Christmas Day on the beach in our bikini's in a couple decades, I guess we can all thank George and remember how heroically stood alone against the tyrannical, oppressive environmentalists (and more than a hundred other governments) and opposed the Kyoto Conference.
Not much new going on news-wise that I want to comment on. So I thought I'd rewind to a few months back. This speech by Howard Dean is a fine summation of the overwhelming world opposition to the US-UK war against Iraq. Several months after the "war ended," most of the questions he raised still stand.
--"I believe that the President too often employs a reckless, go-it-alone approach that drives us away from some of our longest-standing and most important allies, when what we need is to pull the world community together in common action against the imminent threat of terrorism."
"Yes, Saddam Hussein is evil. But Osama bin Laden is also evil, and he has attacked the United States, and he is preparing now to attack us again.
What happened to the war against al Qaeda?
Why has this Administration taken us so far off track?"
I especially like this part, taking other Democrats to task for caving like sychophants...
"That the President was given open-ended authority to go to war in Iraq resulted from a failure of too many in my party in Washington who were worried about political positioning for the presidential election." (emphasis added)
Posted by Hylo
at 8:48 PM MEST
