Dear Cnn,

The media does the world a huge disservice when it portrays opposition to Global Climate change activism as though it is on equal par with the scant few anti-science doubters out there, anti-science campaigners such as James Inhofe.

A sign of just how poorly the Bush Aministration's undermanned, under-armored, under-fed, criminal and disastrous, pre-emptive war of choice on Iraq is going: Bombers just got close enough to scare the bejesus out of UN Chief Ban Ki-moon and the Iraqi prime minister.

I've been wondering whether I should write this.
The fact of the matter is that I've lived outside the U.S. (Bombay) for significant stretches of time, so I do have a different view from most. I have been watching my country sink and sink and sink, and seen hardly any action from the participants in this democracy to stop it.
A stolen election in 2000? The American public didn't seem to care enough after the battle for Florida dragged on for a while. The people simply seemed to get bored with it.
A presidential election! Stolen, obviously, and we didn't care.
The another one, in 2004. Reaction? Does this democracy still function, or are we, the people, too god-damned intellectually lazy to make it function?
This is what I've been wondering whether I should write: Whether it's time to call for the sunset on our country. Whether it's time to end the American project and make its spoiled, vapid, self-centered people have to pay attention to the world around them.

As the neoncon wet dream of a militaristic and aggressive, bullying America goes up in flames, as the policies of the people who pull Bush's strings and make his lips move sprint toward a total Middle East meltdown, as we in America barely notice the loss of Constitutional guarantees, another reminder of just how badly these people have tarnished America's image in the eyes of the world:

From the BBC:
Lakhanow village, Bihar
It is a typical nondescript village - like many others - in the northern Indian state of Bihar.
It consists of unplastered brick houses, dusty lanes, thatched structures and dirt-laden children with no shoes and running noses.
...
What is more, the child will not be the only Saddam Hussein in the neighbourhood. There are more than 20 other Saddam Husseins in Lakhanow alone.
Local people say there are more than 100 Saddam Husseins in 27 adjoining villages dominated by mostly Sunni Muslims.
There is even a family with one son called Saddam Hussein and a younger sibling called Osama Bin Laden.

From the NY Times:

BBC News noted on Sunday, in its pre-coverage of the conference, that the rising temperatures will, of course, have an impact not just on poor countries, including opening up parts of North America and Russia to wheat production that are currently too cold — including Alaska and Siberia. Indeed, a map based on research by Cimmyt, a nonprofit network of global organizations working on food security and agricultural issues, shows the belly of North America’s wheat bounty shifting to Canada by 2050.

I'm not exaggerating. George W. Bush is an aloof, disconnected, dangerous, babbling, uninformed, dull-witted psychopath who we really, really need to remove from office.

From the NY Times:
Bush Dismisses Iraq Panel’s Pullback Plan
President Bush today proclaimed Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki "the right guy for Iraq," and said the two had agreed to speed the turnover of security responsibility from American to Iraqi forces. But Mr. Bush dismissed a reported decision by an independent bipartisan panel to call for a gradual withdrawal of troops.

In a joint news conference in Amman, Jordan, President Bush proclaimed Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki "the right guy for Iraq."

...

"I know there's a lot of speculation that these reports in Washington mean there's going to be some kind of graceful exit out of Iraq," the president said during a joint news conference with Mr. Maliki, referring to the panel's reports that are expected next week. "We're going to stay in Iraq to get the job done so long as the government wants us there."

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He's Out, But Some Still Want Rumsfeld to Face War Crimes Charges

November 09, 2006 9:24 AM

Maddy Sauer Reports:

Though he is now the former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld is expected to be accused of war crimes in a lawsuit to be filed next week in Germany.

The Center for Constitutional Rights will file the suit on behalf of a group of Iraqi detainees as well as the so-called 20th hijacker, who is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay.

"The former secretary actually authorized a series of interrogation techniques," said Michael Ratner, President of CCR. "They included the use of dogs, stripping, hooding, stressed positions, chaining to the floor, sexual humiliation and those types of activities."

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Mas:

Hillary and Newt have been appearing together, as Newt criticizes (rightly) the neocon disaster the world has become, and Hillary talks concessions on the right to choose, each moving toward the other in public. A cross-party ticket? That's what it looks like to me.

Washington -- The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to military officials, a step that would mark a potentially permanent shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.

On The Big Story, John Gibson urged viewers to "[d]o your duty. Make more babies," because he had found out, from a recently released report, that nearly half of all children under the age of five in the United States are minorities. Gibson added: "You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic." Gibson later repeated: "To put it bluntly, we need more babies."