Thanks (?), Thom, for another depressing and disheartening piece on the GQP and Barr. My simple understanding of G.H.W.B was that he was, like Cheney, an oilman, as well as his sonny, "W", who appears to have killed a million Iraqi's and totally destabilized their nation for oil. I have been searching the net for research articles teasin…
Thanks (?), Thom, for another depressing and disheartening piece on the GQP and Barr. My simple understanding of G.H.W.B was that he was, like Cheney, an oilman, as well as his sonny, "W", who appears to have killed a million Iraqi's and totally destabilized their nation for oil. I have been searching the net for research articles teasing out the contributions to global heating from fossil fuel burning, as opposed to solar radiation. Plenty challenging the common narrative of GHGs (CO2, et.al.) having no research to support ANY role at all, but only one "Thermal pollution causes global warming", by the Swede Bo Nordell, 2003.
It is a cover-up of enormous proportions that has hidden the role of, yup, you guessed it, fossil fuel corporations and their henchmen to defraud the American public, yet again. Retired polymath Eliot Jacobson has posited that we are generating the heat equivalent of 12 Hiroshima yield (63 trillion BTUs) nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND into the already massively overheated global environment, which I make out to be 1, 036,800 PER DAY. The hoopla over CO2 appears to be just another distraction/misdirection from the fossil fuel story: 8 billion tons of coal per year, and 100 million barrels of oil PER DAY. Not too great a leap to trace the whole extinction level global heating nightmare back to the fossil fuel overlords. The greenhouse effect is real, but solar radiation appears to play second fiddle to "thermal pollution" from fossil fuel burning. Thanks, again, for your sincere, thorough investigative journalism!
As I'm sure you know, W and Cheney (aka "Pinky and the Brain") did far more than that. Nobody seems to want to mention that ISIS wouldn't exist if they hadn't started that invasion based on lies. (And incidentally ones similar to what I heard justifying the Vietnam War.) It's like Americans don't want to remember anything, though invading Iraq made as much sense as if after Pearl Harbor FDR had gone into Peru. All this and far more is too embarrassing and complicated for the public, so Barr and company get lost in the mix.
There were many motivations behind Dubya's war of choice with Iraq.
1. Competition with Daddy. He had to finish what Daddy didn't, and become a war president and get reelected which Daddy didn't. The father son competition is as old as Egypt.
2. Saddam screwed the goose and made himself a threat to the Saudi's, the Arab world, and Israel, when he declared himself Nebuchadnezzar reincarnated, and then a new Salah al din.
Thus posing a threat not only to Arab leadership by the Saudi's but also to the state of Israel
3. Lastly oil, but that was more Dick Cheney that Dubya. Dubya is like Trump, not a deep thinker, but totally transactional. Cheney saw a chance to grab Arab oil, but was foiled in the end. Halliburton was virtually bankrupt when Cheney was tabbed as VP by Bush.
Thanks (?), Thom, for another depressing and disheartening piece on the GQP and Barr. My simple understanding of G.H.W.B was that he was, like Cheney, an oilman, as well as his sonny, "W", who appears to have killed a million Iraqi's and totally destabilized their nation for oil. I have been searching the net for research articles teasing out the contributions to global heating from fossil fuel burning, as opposed to solar radiation. Plenty challenging the common narrative of GHGs (CO2, et.al.) having no research to support ANY role at all, but only one "Thermal pollution causes global warming", by the Swede Bo Nordell, 2003.
It is a cover-up of enormous proportions that has hidden the role of, yup, you guessed it, fossil fuel corporations and their henchmen to defraud the American public, yet again. Retired polymath Eliot Jacobson has posited that we are generating the heat equivalent of 12 Hiroshima yield (63 trillion BTUs) nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND into the already massively overheated global environment, which I make out to be 1, 036,800 PER DAY. The hoopla over CO2 appears to be just another distraction/misdirection from the fossil fuel story: 8 billion tons of coal per year, and 100 million barrels of oil PER DAY. Not too great a leap to trace the whole extinction level global heating nightmare back to the fossil fuel overlords. The greenhouse effect is real, but solar radiation appears to play second fiddle to "thermal pollution" from fossil fuel burning. Thanks, again, for your sincere, thorough investigative journalism!
As I'm sure you know, W and Cheney (aka "Pinky and the Brain") did far more than that. Nobody seems to want to mention that ISIS wouldn't exist if they hadn't started that invasion based on lies. (And incidentally ones similar to what I heard justifying the Vietnam War.) It's like Americans don't want to remember anything, though invading Iraq made as much sense as if after Pearl Harbor FDR had gone into Peru. All this and far more is too embarrassing and complicated for the public, so Barr and company get lost in the mix.
"Pinky and the Brain", I would LMAO, if it wasn't so true!
There were many motivations behind Dubya's war of choice with Iraq.
1. Competition with Daddy. He had to finish what Daddy didn't, and become a war president and get reelected which Daddy didn't. The father son competition is as old as Egypt.
2. Saddam screwed the goose and made himself a threat to the Saudi's, the Arab world, and Israel, when he declared himself Nebuchadnezzar reincarnated, and then a new Salah al din.
Thus posing a threat not only to Arab leadership by the Saudi's but also to the state of Israel
3. Lastly oil, but that was more Dick Cheney that Dubya. Dubya is like Trump, not a deep thinker, but totally transactional. Cheney saw a chance to grab Arab oil, but was foiled in the end. Halliburton was virtually bankrupt when Cheney was tabbed as VP by Bush.
IMHO, #3, fealty to the military industrial complex, #2, #1. ?