Caught a nifty little piece of dishonesty from Reuters today. Money graf:
" The U.N.'s 1992 Kyoto Protocol, which came into force last year after a decade of wrangling, obliges major industrial nations to cut emissions while granting exemptions to developing countries like India and China.
But it was weakened by the withdrawal in 2001 of the United States, whose President George W. Bush said that working to meet its targets would seriously damage the U.S. economy. He has also argued that warming is a natural, not man-made, process. "
The Kyoto Protocol was signed by the US in 1997, But in July, 1999, the Senate voted 95-0 on an amendment essentially stating that Congress would not ratify the treaty unless China and India were forced to participate more. The US could NOT have withdrawn in 2001, because it never ratified the treaty!
It's always Bush's fault!
After the fact, it dawned on me that it was an interesting coincidence that I happened to catch an interview with Wes Clark on the radio on Friday, and then Milosevic died over the weekend. It made me reflect back on the whole Kosovo intervention back during the Clinton admin.
Funny how much less outrage there was over us going to war without the blessing of the UN back then, huh? It's been like ten years, and Milosevic was still on trial when he died. It' s interesting to contrast that war with Iraq. Like Iraq, Kosovo was done without the UN's blessing. Unlike Iraq, Clinton didn't even bother to ask. Militarily, Kosovo was done entirely from the air, no ground troops. We know about Iraq.
We've seen the aftermath of Kosovo from nearly ten years remove. From what I can gather, the picture remains pretty muddled there. What will Iraq look like in ten years?
Speculation: Maybe better, precisely because we did it the hard way. Real change is difficult. Is anything really better in the Balkans today?
Surprise! The Drug Bill is a success! Like any big bureaucracy, getting started was difficult, but now the program is polling quite well. http://www.ahip.org/. The frickin' thing is actually costing 20% LESS than expected.
Good day in the market today. Dow up 75, Nazz up 26.
W has let it be known that he wants some of the millions of Iraqi documents we recovered after the invasion made public. Only something like 2% have even been translated. CBS, of all, actually broadcast some tapes of Saddam's government meetings where he talked about deceiving inspectors, and about a nascent plasma uranium enrichment program.
Watch out. Democrats running on the Bush Lied ticket may have some splainin' to do.
" The U.N.'s 1992 Kyoto Protocol, which came into force last year after a decade of wrangling, obliges major industrial nations to cut emissions while granting exemptions to developing countries like India and China.
But it was weakened by the withdrawal in 2001 of the United States, whose President George W. Bush said that working to meet its targets would seriously damage the U.S. economy. He has also argued that warming is a natural, not man-made, process. "
The Kyoto Protocol was signed by the US in 1997, But in July, 1999, the Senate voted 95-0 on an amendment essentially stating that Congress would not ratify the treaty unless China and India were forced to participate more. The US could NOT have withdrawn in 2001, because it never ratified the treaty!
It's always Bush's fault!
After the fact, it dawned on me that it was an interesting coincidence that I happened to catch an interview with Wes Clark on the radio on Friday, and then Milosevic died over the weekend. It made me reflect back on the whole Kosovo intervention back during the Clinton admin.
Funny how much less outrage there was over us going to war without the blessing of the UN back then, huh? It's been like ten years, and Milosevic was still on trial when he died. It' s interesting to contrast that war with Iraq. Like Iraq, Kosovo was done without the UN's blessing. Unlike Iraq, Clinton didn't even bother to ask. Militarily, Kosovo was done entirely from the air, no ground troops. We know about Iraq.
We've seen the aftermath of Kosovo from nearly ten years remove. From what I can gather, the picture remains pretty muddled there. What will Iraq look like in ten years?
Speculation: Maybe better, precisely because we did it the hard way. Real change is difficult. Is anything really better in the Balkans today?
Surprise! The Drug Bill is a success! Like any big bureaucracy, getting started was difficult, but now the program is polling quite well. http://www.ahip.org/. The frickin' thing is actually costing 20% LESS than expected.
Good day in the market today. Dow up 75, Nazz up 26.
W has let it be known that he wants some of the millions of Iraqi documents we recovered after the invasion made public. Only something like 2% have even been translated. CBS, of all, actually broadcast some tapes of Saddam's government meetings where he talked about deceiving inspectors, and about a nascent plasma uranium enrichment program.
Watch out. Democrats running on the Bush Lied ticket may have some splainin' to do.
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3:58 PM
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