[Punkbuster]

Well your curve chart makes my point- 30 years ago (near the tip of the curve- we were on the precipice of a NEW ICE AGE. And now its changed?
And thousands of ways? and what parts of the planet will get colder becasue of this- Antartica ice shelf is growing as fast as the Artic's is melting.


And as far as the Dakar Rally goes it matters not how many care of the event (tens of thousands do but that is small in the grand scheme of things) it is that the event has been held in Africa for decades without incident and now because WE are wrong and our POLICIES are wrong they threaten death on innocents that take part in this event? Its all because of big bad USA.
I also personally believe (from afar not knowing the threats) that Muslims are big talkers (they get an extra virgin in heaven for big talkin?) and probably nothing would have happened had they held the rally.

And of course I know what you "blame America for everything" people are thinking. Yes I fully understand the parallel of the US "killing innocents" in Iraq but two truths are clear-
1> The war may have been partly about oil (other countries have oil that we could easily take over and we dont- Nigeria) but like it or not it was
"common knowledge" to all that he had WMD- even Chirac told Colin Powell that Saddahm would surely shoot chemicals at the advancing US army - WRONG Russia, Germany, France, Saudi, Dutch etc... all on board that he had WMD. Dont want to rehash that but the "blame America firsters" always pull that card when others act barbaric.

2>While many innocents have died in the sectarian war that has followed the invasion- (150k is the last estiamte) many tens of thousands also would have been killed by Saddahm and his pervert kids. So its not like we invaded paradise. And no we dont just let countries do what they want- Kosovo EVERYONE wanted us to kill the Serbs. And Bill Clinton said Rwanda was his biggest mistake- My words here- in other words he should have intervened and killed a hundred thosuand or so "innocents" to save 800,000.

It will always be easy to rationalize the murder of innocents by others against us because "we have done wrong"- like it or not when WE (and I believe it will happen) get bombed back to the stone age- the world can then fend for itself without us- oh what a wonderful world it will be.

PS Wonder what Saddahm and the boys would have done with $100 oil?