BLOGS BY BOB

 

“President Bush and his fellow oil baron, Dick Cheney, have spent 7 1⁄2 years doing next to nothing to curb the greenhouse gases that are the chief contributor to global warming. And they made it clear last week that they will leave office in January with their dirty slate intact.”  That is the opening paragraph in a front-page story in today’s Salt Lake Tribune.  http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9877003

 

I read the Salt Lake Tribune just as I was writing the following blog: 

 

We have no leadership at the very moment when our economy is in shambles, oil prices are out of control, global warming is a daily reality and we are fighting two wars (the economy will require a seperate blog)..

 

We have no leadership that is concerned about average every-day Americans and the country’s future.  Instead, we have President Howdy Doody whose every utterance and move are controlled by Vice President Darth Vader and which string he chooses to pull. 

 

Today puppet George W. Bush with the applause and encouragement of John McCain lifted the ban on offshore oil drilling that was imposed by his father George H.W. Bush (W is not even loyal to his dad).

 

This gesture by our president is equivalent to giving the (obscene gesture) to the great majority of Americans who know that finding more oil is not a solution to the energy problem.  The solution is alternative energy and becoming more energy sufficient.  “This is one emergency we can’t drill our way out of,” says Oil Magnate T. Boone Pickens in a nationwide advertising campaign he paid for himself.  He says he has a solution and will tell us about it soon.  He makes it clear that we must support alternative energy development.

 

But why should we be surprised by Bush’s action, when just a few days ago President Doody gave the same (obscene gesture) to the entire world when he emerged from the G8 talks after successfully pushing these gutless elitists to reach no decision on global warming.  The August group issued a hard-hitting statement saying something like, “We agree that something must be done.”  Then they broke up and went home.  Behind the dark mask, Darth Vader smiled and saw dollar signs.    

 

Tied to all of this is the brutal, unjustified war in Iraq that has caused the deaths of thousands of American and allied soldiers along with a million or more Iraqis.  The issues are related because the war in Iraq, despite protestations by Bush and McCain, is about oil (they say it is about hitting the center of the war on terrorism, wait — didn’t he say Afghanistan was the center if not why did we attack them?).  We are losing the war in Afghanistan because the White House decided it was and is more important to get Iraq’s oil to further enrich a few of his oil Baron friends than to fight the real terrorists who killed over 3000 of us on 9-11.

 

Irony of ironies, though, we have not received a single drop of free oil from Iraq because their corrupt leadership has decided to keep the oil and the money while our brave soldiers fight for Iraq’s freedom to exploit us during our energy crisis.  You, President Bush, are a perfect example of the worst kind of leader.  One who would send innocent, patriotic, young people to their deaths in order to satisfy his oil buddies, and then to continue his wrong-headed war in an attempt to hide the blunder.

 

In the meantime, more American troops have died in Afghanistan over the past couple of months than have died in Iraq but we don’t have any help to send, no troops, because our military is bogged down in Iraq a war in which there never was a plan to get out.  The plan was to occupy the land (for a hundred years or so) and steal the oil.

 

Notice if you will the lack of attention the war in Afghanistan gets.  Just yesterday, nine Americans died in a brutal attack by the Taliban.    According to the New York Times, “The attack, the worst against Americans in Afghanistan in three years, illustrated the growing threat of Taliban militants and their associates, who in recent months have made Afghanistan a far deadlier war zone for American-led forces than Iraq.”     http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/14/world/asia/14afghan.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=war+in+afghanistan&st=nyt&oref=slogin   How can Doody and Vader say no when our troops in Afghanistan are dying and begging for help? 

The question in November is pretty clear to me.  Do you want to continue the Bush administration for another four years (McCain has voted with them on every issue concerning the war) or do you think it’s time for a change?

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