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  How soon we forget!

  How soon we forget!  I haven't seen an Inconvenient Truth, and I won't see it, because every time I look at Al Gore, I see the ghosts of several hundred thousand Iraqi civilians who died as a result of the vicious embargo that was imposed by the first Bush regime, and then maintained by the Clinton-Gore regime.  Madeleine Albright, their secretary of state, when asked about the horrendous death toll, replied, "We think the price is worth it."  Al Gore did not speak out against the embargo blockade while he was vice president.  The blood of those innocent victims of the American Imperium is on his hands (as well as on Bush I and II and Clinton, and the members of the 6 Congresses that reigned during the embargo years.

  I think that individual choices do matter. If people don't walk their talk, then they have no authenticity.  If leaders are not being the change they want to see, then the blind are leading the blind right straight into a ditch.

  I am not impressed that he is buying "carbon offsets" to reach some kind of carbon neutral zone.  Are they anything other than an accountants trick?  The rich and powerful always think that money can buy anything, but i just don't think that is true when it comes to pollution and energy consumption.  That sense of personal entitlement to a high energy lifestyle is a primary aspect of our "American Problem".

  There is no such thing as a government that can make the choices ahead "easy" because very few of those choices will be easy even if the Green party captured control of all governments -- local, state, and federal -- in North America. Pretending that there is an easy way out gets us nowhere, it only makes things worse as people continue to consume and destroy, confident that just as soon as we get the politics right, saving the planet will be easy!

  I am hoping that as things progress, we will find some leaders who aren't mass murderers.  I actually don't think that is too much to ask.

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  On Peter Schweitzer, Al Gore, and hypocrisy posted 3 years, 3 months ago 12 Responses