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White House Clamps Down On USGS Publishing
An anonymous reader writes "The White House has begun implementing a new policy toward the U.S. Geological Survey, in which all scientific papers and other public documents by USGS scientists must be screened for content. The USGS communications office must now be 'alerted about information products containing high-visibility topics or topics of a policy-sensitive nature.' Subjects fitting this description might include global warming, or research on the effects of oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve."
You overrate the weight of the scientific community. Scientists have been second rate citizens in the USA for a long time as far as I can see.
But I agree, there are so many reasons to impeach Bush it is hard to know where to start. And when you think that Clinton was ousted for getting his
cock sucked... For me impeachment isn't where it's at. And Bush is the least of the targets. It's like Pokemon, you gotta get them all.
I want to see the whole cabal go on trial at the ICC for war crimes. Then I'd like to see America apologise, in unreserved, unabmiguous terms to the rest of the world for its disgraceful actions. I'd like to see a point by point reaffirmation of every word in the American Constitution and the introduction of new measures to make sure this never happen again. Perhaps you should even abolish the office of El Presidente and move towards a more civilised and modern form of government. Then ( I realise the USA is broke ) reparations be paid to the countries that have been attacked and destroyed.
Yeah riiiiight! Within another 5 years anybody advocating justice or even suggesting that the government isn't beyond criticism
will be shot in the USA.
Fuck the caribou! You've never seen them, I've never seen them, most US citizens have never and will never seen them. We need to drill everywhere we can while we're still dependent on oil and do everything we can to reduce consumption and to transition from an oil based economy so we're no longer dependent on the Middle East and can leave that shit hole to rot.
Well, the vast majority of them are funny, but the one that says 'the Republican Party will attempt to control science to meet political needs' deserves a prize.
Why?
Are you actually going to make someone Google around for a couple examples of this happening?
"We did not know one way or the other until we had troops on the ground."
... there is literally no point in being there. At all. I'm not anti-war. I'm anti-stupid ...
Exactly my point. The administration assured us they did know; they lied.
They had bad intelligence from the CIA, and they are hardly the first administration to suffer from that. Recall that Clinton bad intelligence regarding chmical weapon precursors and bombed a civilian pharmaceutical plant. Also recall the bad intelligence where Clinton bombed the Chinese embassy in the Balkans. Using the word "lie" simply demonstrates a political agenda, not a historical one.
"Iraq regularly fired upon US aircraft."
Let me actually finish that sentence for you: "Iraq regularly fired upon US aircraft flying in their airspace." And let me also point out that if Iraqi aircraft were flying in our airspace.
The no-fly zones protecting the shiites and kurds was established as part of the Gulf War cease fire. They surrendered, the agreed to terms, they violated those terms and continued to engage in hostile actions.
"Iraq was involved in assassination attempts of US citizens, a former president for example."
You mean like when Bush tried to kill Saddam in the very first bombing of the war?
Again, they did so after they surrendered.
When we sneakily dropped all manner of high powered weapons on a major city in Iraq using aircraft that were invisible to Iraqi defenses?
Saddam was warned prior to the attack. He was given a deadline.
Yet you exhibit stupidity by failing to recognize that your arguments are against the invasion, and not applicable to the current war. Again, today there *is* and al-quaeda presence, today there *is* an internation johadist presence, etc. That is what is relevant today, not WMD years ago. Again, the fixation and yesteryears WMD issue indicates a fixation on politics.