The pot calling the kettle black. Compare supporting the Dictator Assad, a former British Eye Surgeon, to our support of the Shah of Iran or Pinocette, real monsters. Or shock and awe of Iraq, including sprinkling the entire nation with spent uranium causing a massive spike in birth abnormalities. China and Russia signed the ban on landmines. The USA is the only major power which has refused to do so. The USA has become the greatest terrorist organization on the planet. It is even targeting its own citizens.

noupyours,

Reagan promised Gorbachov that we would not move the Warsaw Pac into NATO. Assange has published irrefutable proof the US Government is a belligerant liar. For proving this they want to lock him up or torture or kill him, because no one is supposed to know the truth. Manning was held in solitary confinement for two years without trial, in an illegal effort to frame Assange. We protect the terrorist Posada that blew up a Cuban airliner with 160 passengers over Venezuela. Meanwhile, we lock up Padilla for imaginary terrorist crimes. We train people South of our border to murder priests and nuns who support human rights. The murder rate and drug running in countries we control, like Columbia, is mind boggling. Countries which have rejected our violent policies like Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile are enjoying a renewed prosperity.

Countries that aren't determined to rule the planet by force have lots of money for education, health care and social security. We don't only because we waste it all building weapons of mass destruction. Then we lose the unnecessary wars we start.

People need to know the truth. Its the first step in fixing things. Its sad you aren't interested. I have a passport, but I'm too busy skiing right now.

now come on dave, surely you understand that there is a lag between the initiation of policies under Cheney's "Energy Task Force" and the consequences. Bush went to war with Clinton's Army.

Lets review the facts. Gasoline consumption is down due to the ongoing recession. Production and Prices are up. The difference is being exported in order to keep prices high. The call for war on Iraq has triggered a self fulfilling prophesy in the form of a feeding frenzy by market speculators that contrary to what RiR says, never take possession of the oil. The Kochs, who do take possession of the oil, have manipulated prices by keeping oil on tankers until targeted refineries begin to run low and then releasing it at a premium price.

Obama is a secret Conservative chosen by Wall Street to further their agenda. He talks like a liberal, but his action and inaction betray the talk.