Criminal Poor Judgement: Extinct Baiji Dolphin & Iraq War
This week saw the rarest of all dolphins, the baiji, declared " functionally extinct ". It had existed in the Yangtze River for the past 20 million years. But with the construction of Three Gorges Dam, the dolphin has not been seen since 2003. The hydroelectric dam provides electricity for a portion of the 1.3 billion Chinese that now ravage that part of China.
This week also saw the hanging execution of Saddam Hussein. So far that is the only dubious accomplishment that our country has gotten for it's 500 billion spent in the ravaging of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Poor judgement was used in both cases.The fact that a handful of dolphins were too much and had to be forced out of existence so 1.3 billion Chinese could " advance" their consumerism is a crime. The fact the U.S. spent 1/2 trillion dollars, killed or dislocated millions of Iraqis while killing or maiming tens of thousands of American soldiers in the pursuit of an illegal war is also a crime.
And what will the punishment be for these crimes? The Chinese in the end will meet the same fate of all overpopulated species-they will starve down to a more appropriate head count. And hopefully the architects of the criminal and illegal Iraqi war should meet a similar Hussein-type fate.
This week also saw the hanging execution of Saddam Hussein. So far that is the only dubious accomplishment that our country has gotten for it's 500 billion spent in the ravaging of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Poor judgement was used in both cases.The fact that a handful of dolphins were too much and had to be forced out of existence so 1.3 billion Chinese could " advance" their consumerism is a crime. The fact the U.S. spent 1/2 trillion dollars, killed or dislocated millions of Iraqis while killing or maiming tens of thousands of American soldiers in the pursuit of an illegal war is also a crime.
And what will the punishment be for these crimes? The Chinese in the end will meet the same fate of all overpopulated species-they will starve down to a more appropriate head count. And hopefully the architects of the criminal and illegal Iraqi war should meet a similar Hussein-type fate.
Labels: baiji dolphin extinction, criminal bad judgement, illegal war, overpopulation
posted by Barry Leonardini at 9:52 AM
1 Comments:
Criminal and illegal are two terms crafted by left wing lawyers to describe an action taken by a US President to defend the Republic. Those responsible for the war should be hanged, namely Osama Bin Laden and his crew. If President Bush had any mettle those in government and at the NY Times who deliberately leak “classified information” would be arrested. FDR did not tolerate treason from the media. He won “his war.”
I’m sorry about the dolphins in China. The Chinese do not have a free society. Do you wonder about the state of the environmental movement in communist countries? There isn’t one. Concern for the environment is directly related to personal wealth, education and free speech. China does not have free speech. Through manipulation of public education the left has managed to convince many Americans that personal wealth and concern for the environment are not directly related. Nothing is further from the truth. It is the decadent western world whose basic needs have long been met that has the luxury of alternative energies and who is now spreading them world wide in an attempt to “save the planet”.
The irony of the Three Gorges Dam was that it was designed in hopes of providing a cleaner source of power than the coal and wood smoke that now darken and choke China’s skies. The scale of the project was absurd and born of a desire to be the biggest and best. However, it’s unfair for any of us to decry Chinese “consumerism” in a country where many still have simple electric power only a few hours a week.
Saddam Hussein was executed this week. When he ran Iraq 4,000 people a year were executed in Abu Grab prison alone. Whatever numbers the America haters fabricate about the detrimental effect of US involvement in Iraq are paled by his legacy of horror.
Saddam was an eco terrorist as well, draining the marshes of Iraq to destroy the homeland of the Marsh Arabs who he felt were providing sanctuary to his enemies.
See Human Rights Watch at
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/marsharabs1.htm
In another senseless example of ecological assault, he had his retreating armies set fire to Kuwaiti oil wells after his failed attempt to expand his reign of terror and seize the assets of that country.
How decadent are we that we can be concerned about the fate of Chinese dolphins but find that the “butcher of Baghdad” and his mass executions are none of our concern? Even when that same lunatic is hosting terrorist training camps and awarding cash prizes to the families of suicide bombers? Apparently the true tragedy is that the absence of the iron fist has caused a chaotic rush to fill the power vacuum we created by unseating the tyrant!
http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/legacyofterror.html
There have been over 400,000 bodies located in mass graves as well as an untold number of those executed, murdered and raped one by one.
Saddam was who they had in mind when they invented the phrase “hanging is too good for him.”
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