Two Deadly Failures of the Bush Administration

Today's two major threats to our survival are:

1) possible terrorist exploitation of the unprotected Soviet nuclear weapon remnants left over from the Cold War and/or deadly eruptions of our too frequently badly maintained and/or protected nuclear and hazardous chemical producing plants.

2) excess human population -- which is already well on the way to polluting both vital global water supplies and the very air we breath as well as exhausting our essential natural resources.

The Bush administration has scored F- by responding to both these critical threats by such htings as dragging its heels in safeguarding nuclear materials and plants that are time bombs waiting to go off and similarly joining up with the Catholic Church hierarchy and others in sabotaging efforts to control our global population explosion -- already creating massive poverty and suffering, as hundreds of millions flee from their now no longer viable rural agricultural means of self-support to pick over the garbage dumps of major urban centers.

Needless to say the reasons for these actions lie in the cheapest kinds of political appeals to narrow ideological economic/politico/religious interests. One must hold accountable the aberrants who a) oppose critically necessary protections of our environment (e.g. corporate profiteers and libertarians), b) reasonable control of population growth (e.g. misnamed as 'pro life' advocates). The human suffering induced by the second is nearly unbearable to witness daily on our TV screens in the faces of starving children and the potential disasters implicit in the first have been horrifyingly exemplified by Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Chernobyl.

Our manifestly stressed out, intellectually limited president has become a major world hazard as he blindly stumbles along, leading our nation and world in precisely the opposite direction from that demanded by the most elementary knowledge of the two threats cited above -- his Kyoto flight to his attempted veto of an international criminal court which could intimidate corrupt world leaders and, thereby, counter a major cause of terrorism. Only those incredibly ill-informed or blinded by narrow self-interest support such madness.
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