Kerry: US A Pariah, Hezbollah Not So Much

Update Allah has video.

Speaking in Davos, Switzerland, foot in mouth Senator John Kerry, perhaps now liberated to be a total clown, suggested that the problem with America is Americans, recommended sending former President Clinton to settle matters in Iraq, while also claiming America is an international pariah because of Bush - and somewhere along the line he found time to pose with former Iranian President Ayatollah Mohammad Khatami. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Speaking at Harvard University, the Ayatollah Mohammad Khatami denied that Hizballah is a terrorist organization, and called it “a symbol of Arab resistance.” that story at lgf

You also might recall Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney recently denying a taxpayer funded police escort for Khatami when he spoke at Harvard.

Along with the pariah remark, Kerry also said:

"When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy," Kerry said.

"So we have a crisis of confidence in the Middle East — in the world, really. I've never seen our country as isolated, as much as a sort of international pariah for a number of reasons as it is today."

The so-called French Senator went on to imply that the real trouble with America is that we're Americans:

Kerry criticized what he called the "unfortunate habit" of Americans to see the world "exclusively through an American lens."

Perhaps he borrowed Khatami's glasses for the event? And he wants us to send former president Clinton to Iraq:

"I don't care how many troops are put in — Iraq is not going to be pacified," Kerry said. "Now, we are partly responsible. The absence of legitimate significant diplomacy is a disgrace. Quick flights in by a secretary of state are not diplomacy."

"There should be a special envoy, maybe a joint bipartisan special envoy. Why not a President Clinton together with a Republican of high ability, and bring them together and really work the process?"

Update: Note to Senator Kerry, I have a process you can work. Let's hope this guy, or another possible winner runs against Kerry in 2008.

A pitch for Red Sox ace Curt Schilling to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate. Today’s Boston Herald reports there’s a move to draft Schilling as Kerry’s opponent in the 2008 senate race.

Greg Tinti at The political Pitbull weighs in on the incident as well.

What a terrible message that sends, huh John?

Comments

[splashtc]

With friends like that who needs enemys. I'd like to see him brought up on treason charges.

[yyy]

Hmmm,

We did walk away from Kyoto and Bush has resolutely been a 'flat earther' as far as global warming goes, deny, deny, deny, by the time the results are incontravertable he and his children will be long dead.

America is becoming an international pariah, just look at the polls from just our ALLIES.

Not talking to countries because 'we don't like them and they don't like us' is MORONIC.

The efforts on Iraq in four years have produced nothing but death and destruction for all involved. I would say a real new strategy, not just a strategy to ensure Bush doens't have to admit failure and can blame failure on the next president, is in order.

So, yeah, goodness knows, speaking the unvarnished truth is treason to the rest of you 28 percenter flat earthers.

[Stormy70]

Wow, someone has gone off their meds today.
Grammar is not your forte, is it yyy.

[yyy]

Eww good one. I feel soooo humiliated and taken to task.

Grammar is the least of my concerns when talking to flat earthers like you people. Since you can't comprehend basic facts there isn't any point in bothering about sentence structure, grammar or spelling.

[richard mcenroe]

yyy -- How did John Kerry vote on the Kyoto Treaty, hmmm?

[Dan Riehl]

Don't ask him hard questions bvased on reality, he's having a Kerry-gasm. A rare occurence according to Therezzzzzzza.

The idiot Kerry should be put on the no fly list and not allowed back into the country. He's a pathetic disgrace, which isn't exactly new for him.

[Mike S]

And who was president when John Kerry voted no on Kyoto? (hint: not either Bush.)How can Bush possibly be responsible for that? I believe the Senate vote was 98 - 0 to reject Kyoto because EVERYONE recognized that Kyoto was totally unfair to the US.

I guarantee you that the amount of communication between the US and every single other country in the world is more than none. It's just hard to have a serious conversation with anyone who's position is, "death to the great Satan."

"The efforts on Iraq in four years have produced nothing but death and destruction for all involved." - we also deposed Saddam Hussein, and made sure that his sadistic sons didn't succeed him in power.

[Sherlock]

Kerry is a lying POS. During the Bush administration the amount of money the US donates to fight AIDS in Africa has more than tripled! And do you know why? Those evil Christianists who want to pretend to help the unfortunate so they can harvest their souls, they talked him into it! Does the power of the religious right know no bounds? Granted, it isn't as powerful as those evil Jooooos!

[Bill Faith]

It's time for the VP to take this guy hunting. Deer hunting, none of that birdshot stuff. I excerpted and linked from "Ain't it a shame this great American isn't running in '08?" http://www.smalltownveteran.net/bills_bites/2007/01/kerry_slams_us_.html

[Purple Avenger]

"America is an international pariah"

Will someone please tell all the illegal aliens this.

[Jackson]

Hey Riehl, tell us again how George Allen won the Virginia Senate race in the 2006 election. Even funnier: Malkin broadcast your “call” on Fox News. Dumbest. Blogger. Ever.

[Dan Riehl]

Malkin broadcast your “call” on Fox News.

Yes, which I've also appeared on - and CNN since. So your entire claim to fifteen seconds of fame is trolling on "my" blog?

Your point? Thanks for playing, L-o-o-o-o-s-e-r! ; )

[yyy]

If we're reduced to using the uneducated, illegal aliens as a harbinger of American prestige worldwide we are in a world of hurt. The polls tell a different story about how America is viewed by people all across the world.

Yes, we deposed Saddam, and what did we put in his place? Maliki is hardly a Churchillian figure, in fact, he gives every indication of being Sadr's puppet, beholden to the Shia death squads and completely unable or unwilling to bring Shia killing of Sunnis under control. And if Iran is supporting the Shia militias who are supporting Maliki then we have ended up putting in place a government that would be inherently more sympathetic to Shia Iran than to the rest of the Sunni Arab world. Please. Travesty is too gentle a term for the debacle Bush has created.

Nor does ANYONE appear to have ANY KIND OF PLAN with a hope of working on how to get the Sunni and the Shia to share power in a way that protects everyone enough to stop the killing.

If George Bush was the uniter he claimed to be then he might have gone down in history as one of our greatest presidents. He was handed an historic moment in time, 9/11 might have allowed Bush to reshape the public view of government. He might have banished the Vietnam and Watergate demons forever, making government a force of good, he might have reversed the trend of partisanship and acrimony, forged a new covenant with the American people and reshaped a generation's view of goverment.

Instead, he proved to be a divider, one of the most partison, divisive presidents in memory. He polarized the nation, spent his international and domestic goodwill and capitol on a misguided, unnecessary war and instituted an unprecedented assault on every freedom that America has ever stood for. He has further eroded trust in government and faith in American good intentions around the world. This is his legacy. Failure. Fear. Hatred. Nothing more and never will be.

What we have done is remove a rotten turnip, Saddam, and unleashed a tsunami of sectarian violence that we have no clue how to stop. Forgive me if this doesn't strike me as success, liberation or freedom. I suspect that most Iraqis if given the choices of rolling back the clock, the deaths, the destruction of their infrastructure would gladly take Saddam back to undo the damage that has been done since our invasion of their podunk country.

[TomB]

So yyy, how DID John Kerry vote for Kyoto in the Senate?

We're still awaiting your answer.

Oh, and men and women are called "leaders" because they, at least are supposed to, lead. Looking at polls to determine what you think or how you should act it the very antithesis of leadership.

[yyy]

I never said Kerry voted for ratification, what I said was and what Kerry said was that Bush had walked away from Kyoto and has treated global warming like a fairytale instead of the consensus of the scientific community.

There is leadership and moronic stupidity, both might necessitate the need to ignore public sentiment and polling data. The trick is telling the difference.

I am very, very confident that history is going to put George W. Bush squarely in the category of moronic stupidity.

[TomB]

"since our invasion of their podunk country."

Nice. At least we now know where you're coming from.

Oh and no, the polls, which you so dearly love, show no support for Saddam. That you would think differently also speaks volumes for how lost you are.

[TomB]

"I never said Kerry voted for ratification, what I said was and what Kerry said was that Bush had walked away from Kyoto and has treated global warming like a fairytale instead of the consensus of the scientific community"

Kerry and the Senate voted 98-0 to NOT ratify Kyoto. It is the Senate, not the President that ratifies treaties.

If Kerry is so concerned about Kyoto, why didn't he speak up about it then?

[yyy]

Really?

Got anything to back that up other than flat earther "belief"

[grayson]

This is one of those great examples of the blame America view. Is it possible that our ALLIES aren't willing to budge on their positions? Why is it that multiculturalists only think of the world in terms of what America does or doesn't do with it, instead of considering what those poor, stupid brown people (who so desperately need progressives to help them speak truth to power) want to do?

Do they honestly believe our ALLIES (oh, hell, let's name them since liberals don't have the guts to: Germany, France, Russia and China) will do anything in the world that doesn't strictly adhere to their own interests?

Are they that willfully stupid?

Why is it when faced with the idea that America and "The Rest of the World" must come together, liberals always insist that it's America's fault if the twain don't meet? Why do they insist that it's America that ought to bend to "the world," and not the world that should bend toward America?

This idiotic idea that America is a wild random threat to everyone around them just baffles me. Ask the Canadians and Mexicans if they seriously think we're interested in invading their countries and pushing them around. Now go ask the former Eastern Bloc countries or those around the Pacific Rim what they think of progressive titans Russia and China.

You want your Vietnam analogies? Ask the average Vietnamese person LIVING IN VIETNAM what he thinks of America and Americans, then ask him what he thinks of China and the Chinese. Nevermind the ones who live here.

As a Vietnamese person whose had a Vietnamese mother and brothers all my life, I can tell you idiot liberals that the answer isn't going to fit with your entire narrative of what's happened in the world over the last 30 years.

Mike S, Sherlock and Purple Avenger have it down perfectly. Even with all the moronic hysteria that liberals whip themselves into, the net flow of immigration applications is from Europe to America, not the other way round. While liberals are happy to go visit the brown people of the world, like some Patagonia-festooned anthropologist, Europe is the only place liberals would ever consider moving.

Even Bono - a reactionary emotion-driven progressive as any other - admitted that it was the U.S., and more importantly the Bush Administration who has stepped up to fight African HIV. Lost in that conversation is the fact that the biggest barriers to stopping the spread of HIV in Africa is African poverty, corruption, tribalism and superstition. The former two things are INCREASED by progressive policies, including European tariffs of African agriculture, environmental hyperventalation regarding the use of DDT and the progressive push for Socialist policies in Africa that concentrated power into the hands of dictators who couldn't give a rat's ass about their people. God, you people drive me nuts.

Absolutely damn right it was the Christians who pushed the administration into acting in Africa. Just like it was Christian (notably Protestant) philosophy that led to the idea of universal human rights, the abolition of slavery and women's suffrage.

[TomB]

"Got anything to back that up other than flat earther "belief""

What is "that"?

You don't communicate very clear.

[yyy]

I don't need a lesson in how treaties are ratified thanks.

Is it true or false that the Bush Administration has consistenly downplayed the impact of global warming, and has consistenly posiitioned the human impact on global climate change as something where there was no consensus in the scientific community, when in fact, other than a few crackpots, scientists overwhelmingly believe global warming is real, dangerous and directly related to human activity?

There is also substantial evidence that scientists employed by the government who believe human activity is directly related to global warming have been silenced, and their reports edited and been told they cannot talk to the media.

Or, do you also 'believe' that George Bush is a big environmentalist?

[TomB]

And here is how "slow" Bush is moving concerning Africa:

Rock Star Bono Applauds Bush Efforts to Aid Africa
Cites AIDS funding, anti-corruption element of Millennium Challenge Account

By Susan Ellis
Washington File Staff Writer

Washington – Bono, lead singer of the rock group U2 and co-founder of DATA (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa), appeared on American television June 26 to express the hope of those who have been working on development issues in Africa that the meeting of "the eight most powerful men in the world" -- the Group of Eight (or G8, consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, July 6-8 -- will bring about a "historic breakthrough … on issues facing the poorest of the poor."

Interviewed on NBC’s Meet the Press via video link from Dublin, Ireland, Bono had high praise for President Bush: "I think he's done an incredible job, his administration, on AIDS. And 250,000 Africans are on anti-viral drugs. They literally owe their lives to America. In one year that's been done."

The push to bring good health to Africans cannot address only AIDS treatment, he added, but must also deal with the "environment in which viruses like AIDS thrive -- or malaria. Three thousand Africans die every day of a mosquito bite. That's not acceptable in the 21st century and we can stop it. And waterborne illnesses -- dirty water takes another 3,000 lives -- children, mothers, sisters."

Acknowledging that the U.S president is under great pressure in dealing with international terrorism and domestic finances, Bono said that if Bush in his second term is "as bold in his commitments to Africa as he was in the first term, he indeed deserves a place in history in turning the fate of that continent around."

Having worked on Bush's AIDS initiative and the Millenium Challenge Account, the rock star thinks Bush "deserves his place in history. He has the heart for it," he added, "but his advisers are going … to have to let him sign … a proper check.

[yyy]

"That" would be any evidence that Iraqis prefer the current civil war to living under Saddam Hussein.

"That" would be any evidence that Iraqis think the invasion of their country has benefited them.

"That" would be any evidence that Iraqis think they are better off now than they were under Saddam Hussein.

Do ya get it now?

[TomB]

"I don't need a lesson in how treaties are ratified thanks."

Apparently you do.

Face it, even before Bush was elected, Kerry had the opportunity to take the lead in the ratification of Kyoto. Instead, he voted against it.

It seems to me he has little room to talk.

And perhaps you can give me some evidence that there is a "consensus" among scientist regarding AGW and that "government" scientists are being silenced. If that is the case how is James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, allowed to constantly rip Bush?

[TomB]

Heh:

2005 Poll: Broad Optimism in Iraq, But Also Deep Divisions Among Groups

http://abcnews.go.com/International/PollVault/story?id=1389228

Dec. 12, 2005 — Surprising levels of optimism prevail in Iraq with living conditions improved, security more a national worry than a local one, and expectations for the future high. But views of the country's situation overall are far less positive, and there are vast differences in views among Iraqi groups — a study in contrasts between increasingly disaffected Sunni areas and vastly more positive Shiite and Kurdish provinces.

An ABC News poll in Iraq, conducted with Time magazine and other media partners, includes some remarkable results: Despite the daily violence there, most living conditions are rated positively, seven in 10 Iraqis say their own lives are going well, and nearly two-thirds expect things to improve in the year ahead.

Surprisingly, given the insurgents' attacks on Iraqi civilians, more than six in 10 Iraqis feel very safe in their own neighborhoods, up sharply from just 40 percent in a poll in June 2004. And 61 percent say local security is good — up from 49 percent in the first ABC News poll in Iraq in February 2004.

Nonetheless, nationally, security is seen as the most pressing problem by far; 57 percent identify it as the country's top priority. Economic improvements are helping the public mood.

Average household incomes have soared by 60 percent in the last 20 months (to $263 a month), 70 percent of Iraqis rate their own economic situation positively, and consumer goods are sweeping the country. In early 2004, 6 percent of Iraqi households had cell phones; now it's 62 percent. Ownership of satellite dishes has nearly tripled, and many more families now own air conditioners (58 percent, up from 44 percent), cars, washing machines and kitchen appliances.

Life In Iraq: Percent Saying Good

In Your Life 70%
For Country 44%

There are positive political signs as well. Three-quarters of Iraqis express confidence in the national elections being held this week, 70 percent approve of the new constitution, and 70 percent — including most people in Sunni and Shiite areas alike — want Iraq to remain a unified country.

Interest in politics has soared.

Preference for a democratic political structure has advanced, to 57 percent of Iraqis, while support for an Islamic state has lost ground, to 14 percent (the rest, 26 percent, chiefly in Sunni Arab areas, favor a "single strong leader.")

Whatever the current problems, 69 percent of Iraqis expect things for the country overall to improve in the next year — a remarkable level of optimism in light of the continuing violence there. However, in a sign of the many challenges ahead, this optimism is far lower in Sunni Arab-dominated provinces, where just 35 percent are optimistic about the country's future.

[yyy]

You need me to point you to the scientific consensus on global warming? LOL.

You are beating a straw man. The problem isn't Kyoto but climate change. Kyoto as it stood, and admitting that fossil fuels are accelerating global climate change are two separate issues. I AGREE that giving the third world a total pass on carbon emissions is unfair and wrong. But, I DISAGREE that the short term economic alleged 'harm' that would result in making changes is more important than changing the climate of the freaking planet. The solution, then, would be to work to improve Kyoto not ignore it and ignore climate change qs well.

I will advise you to do what Dan does, use Google. There are several scientistis who say their findings were eliminated or altered from final reports involving environmental and global climate subjects. All of them got substantial media coverage.

In fact, I suspect they are much easier to find than Dan Riehl's military service record.

[TomB]

"You need me to point you to the scientific consensus on global warming? LOL."

Yes I do. You have made the assertion. Please back it up.

Specifics please.

[yyy]

But okay, Iraqis were optimistic. More optimistic than I would have thought even in 2005. I'm surprised.

I wonder if they feel the same optimism now.

But, wait, I thought the US media only reported bad news?? Aren't ABC and Time the enemy?? Maybe this poll is rigged???

[TomB]

Wrong about Kerry and Kyoto.

Wrong about Iraqis wanting Saddam back.

Can't wait for the rest...

[TomB]

"You need me to point you to the scientific consensus on global warming? LOL. "

Nevermind, I'll do it for you:

Skeptics (this is by no means a complete list, for further "consensus", please look at the Oregon Petition. I believe they are up to about 20,000 signatures):

Chris de Freitas, Associate Professor, School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, University of Auckland

Claude Allègre, French geophysicist, Institute of Geophysics (Paris)

Robert C. Balling, Jr., director of the Office of Climatology and an associate professor of geography at Arizona State University

David Deming, geology professor at the University of Oklahoma

Richard Lindzen, MIT meteorology professor and member of the National Academy of Sciences

Roy Spencer, principal research scientist, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Khabibullo Ismailovich Abdusamatov, at Pulkovskaya Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the supervisor of the Astrometria project of the Russian section of the International Space Station

Sallie Baliunas, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Robert M. Carter, researcher at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Australia

George V. Chilingar, professor of civil and petroleum engineering at the University of Southern California

William M. Gray, professor of atmospheric science and meteorologist, Colorado State University (now at NOAA)

Zbigniew Jaworowski, chair of the Scientific Council at the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw

Marcel Leroux, former Professor of Climatology, Université Jean Moulin

Tim Patterson , paleoclimatologist and Professor of Geology at Carleton University in Canada

Frederick Seitz, retired, former solid-state physicist, former president of the National Academy of Sciences

Nir Shaviv, astrophysicist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Fred Singer, Professor emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Virginia

Willie Soon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Henrik Svensmark, Danish National Space Center

Jan Veizer, environmental geochemist, Professor Emeritus from University of Ottawa

Sherwood Idso, former research physicist, USDA Water Conservation Laboratory, and adjunct professor, Arizona State University

Dr. Ian D. Clark, professor, isotope hydrogeology and paleoclimatology, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa.

Dr. Tad Murty, former senior research scientist, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, former director of Australia's National Tidal Facility, and professor of earth sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide; currently adjunct professor, Departments of Civil Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa

Dr. R. Timothy Patterson, professor, Department of Earth Sciences (paleoclimatology), Carleton University, Ottawa.

Dr. Fred Michel, director, Institute of Environmental Science and associate professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa.

Dr. Madhav Khandekar, former research scientist, Environment Canada. Member of editorial board of Climate Research and Natural Hazards.

Dr. Paul Copper, FRSC, professor emeritus, Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario.

Dr. Ross McKitrick, associate professor, Department of Economics, University of Guelph, Ontario.

Dr. Tim Ball, former professor of climatology, University of Winnipeg; environmental consultant.

Dr. Andreas Prokocon, adjunct professor of earth sciences, University of Ottawa; consultant in statistics and geology.

Mr. David Nowell, M.Sc. (Meteorology), fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, Canadian member, and past chairman of the NATO Meteorological Group, Ottawa.

Dr. Christopher Essex, professor of applied mathematics and associate director of the Program in Theoretical Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Dr. Gordon E. Swaters, professor of applied mathematics, Department of Mathematical Sciences, and member, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Research Group, University of Alberta.

Dr. L. Graham Smith, associate professor, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Dr. G. Cornelis van Kooten, professor and Canada Research Chair in environmental studies and climate change, Department of Economics, University of Victoria.

Dr. Peter Chylek, adjunct professor, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax.

Dr./Cdr. M. R. Morgan, FRMS, climate consultant, former meteorology advisor to the World Meteorological Organization. Previously research scientist in climatology at University of Exeter, U.K.

Dr. Keith D. Hage, climate consultant and professor emeritus of Meteorology, University of Alberta.

Dr. David E. Wojick, P.Eng., energy consultant, Star Tannery, Virginia, and Sioux Lookout, Ontario.

Rob Scagel, M.Sc., forest microclimate specialist, principal consultant, Pacific Phytometric Consultants, Surrey, B.C.

Dr. Douglas Leahey, meteorologist and air-quality consultant, Calgary.

Paavo Siitam, M.Sc., agronomist, chemist, Cobourg, Ontario.

Dr. Chris de Freitas, climate scientist, associate professor, The University of Auckland, N.Z.

Dr. Freeman J. Dyson, emeritus professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey.

Mr. George Taylor, Department of Meteorology, Oregon State University; Oregon State climatologist; past president, American Association of State Climatologists.

Dr. Ian Plimer, professor of geology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide; emeritus professor of earth sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. R.M. Carter, professor, Marine Geophysical Laboratory, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia.

Mr. William Kininmonth, Australasian Climate Research, former Head National Climate Centre, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; former Australian delegate to World Meteorological Organization Commission for Climatology, Scientific and Technical Review.

Dr. Hendrik Tennekes, former director of research, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

Dr. Gerrit J. van der Lingen, geologist/paleoclimatologist, Climate Change Consultant, Geoscience Research and Investigations, New Zealand.

Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner, emeritus professor of paleogeophysics and geodynamics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr. Gary D. Sharp, Center for Climate/Ocean Resources Study, Salinas, California.

Dr. Al Pekarek, associate professor of geology, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Dept., St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Dr. Marcel Leroux, professor emeritus of climatology, University of Lyon, France; former director of Laboratory of Climatology, Risks and Environment, CNRS

Dr. Paul Reiter, professor, Institut Pasteur, Unit of Insects and Infectious Diseases, Paris, France. Expert reviewer, IPCC Working group II, chapter 8 (human health).

Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski, physicist and chairman, Scientific Council of Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection, Warsaw, Poland.

Dr. Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen, reader, Department of Geography, University of Hull, U.K.; editor, Energy and Environment.

Dr. Hans H.J. Labohm, former advisor to the executive board, Clingendael Institute (The Netherlands Institute of International Relations), and an economist who has focused on climate change.

Dr. Lee C. Gerhard, senior scientist emeritus, University of Kansas, past director and state geologist, Kansas Geological Survey.

Dr. Asmunn Moene, past head of the Forecasting Centre, Meteorological Institute, Norway.

Dr. August H. Auer, past professor of atmospheric science, University of Wyoming; previously chief meteorologist, Meteorological Service (MetService) of New Zealand.

Dr. Vincent Gray, expert reviewer for the IPCC, and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of "Climate Change 2001," Wellington, N.Z.

Dr. Howard Hayden, emeritus professor of physics, University of Connecticut.

Dr. Benny Peiser, professor of social anthropology, Faculty of Science, Liverpool John Moores University, U.K.

Dr. Jack Barrett, chemist and spectroscopist, formerly with Imperial College London, U.K.

Dr. William J.R. Alexander, professor emeritus, Dept. of Civil and Biosystems Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa. Member, United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee on Natural Disasters, 1994-2000

Dr. Harry N.A. Priem, emeritus professor of planetary geology and isotope geophysics, Utrecht University; former director of the Netherlands Institute for Isotope Geosciences; past president of the Royal Netherlands Geological & Mining Society.

Dr. Robert H. Essenhigh, E.G. Bailey professor of energy conversion, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Ohio State University.

Dr. Sallie Baliunas, astrophysicist and climate researcher, Boston, Mass.

Douglas Hoyt, senior scientist at Raytheon (retired) and co-author of the book, The Role of the Sun in Climate Change; previously with NCAR, NOAA, and the World Radiation Center, Davos, Switzerland.

Peter Dietze, independent energy advisor and scientific climate and carbon modeller, official IPCC reviewer, Bavaria, Germany.

Dr. Boris Winterhalter, senior marine researcher (retired), Geological Survey of Finland, former professor in marine geology, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Dr. Wibjörn Karlén, emeritus professor, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Dr. Hugh W. Ellsaesser, physicist/meteorologist, previously with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California; atmospheric consultant.

Dr. Art Robinson, founder, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Cave Junction, Oregon.

Dr. Arthur Rörsch, emeritus professor of molecular genetics, Leiden University, The Netherlands; past board member, Netherlands organization for applied research (TNO) in environmental, food, and public health.

Dr. Alister McFarquhar, Downing College, Cambridge, U.K.; international economist.

Dr. Richard S. Courtney, climate and atmospheric science consultant, IPCC expert reviewer, U.K.

Note: there may be some repeats. I got the names from more than one source.

[YYY is an Idiot]

YYY---you are literally mentally retarded--you realize that, don't you?

[TomB]

Boy, he disappeared awfully fast after his talking points ran out.

[nochickenlittles]

YYY,
Everyone who doesn't agree with the liberal party line about global warming, oh excuse me, Climate Change, is a "flat earther"? My, but you do have all of the latest party-line buzz words down, now don't you?
If you really believe all of the AGW hoopla; please be a shining example to us all & burn all of your motor vehicles in protest.
So, fuck off chicken little. You have been soundly out gunned by previous posters. Twit.

[TomB]

Oh, and for those keeping score at home, yyy (and Kerry) was also wrong about aid to Africa. Without looking it up, I believe in the past few years Bush has TRIPLED the amount we have given.

Which brings up another point. Those liberals who fought for the banning and continue to fight against the use of DDT in Africa have directly contributed to the deaths of millions of Africans, mainly children, from malaria. If you are concerned with saving lives of Africans, start spraying DDT. Malaria has and will continue to kill more Africans than AIDS could ever hope to.

[TomB]

Not to pile on (well, a little), but I came across the article I was thinking of over at the comments at Ace's place.

Bush Has Quietly Tripled Aid to Africa
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/30/AR2006123000941_pf.html

By Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 31, 2006; A04

President Bush's legacy is sure to be defined by his wielding of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there is another, much softer and less-noticed effort by his administration in foreign affairs: a dramatic increase in U.S. aid to Africa.

The president has tripled direct humanitarian and development aid to the world's most impoverished continent since taking office and recently vowed to double that increased amount by 2010 -- to nearly $9 billion.

The moves have surprised -- and pleased -- longtime supporters of assistance for Africa, who note that because Bush has received little support from African American voters, he has little obvious political incentive for his interest.

"I think the Bush administration deserves pretty high marks in terms of increasing aid to Africa," said Steve Radelet, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Bush has increased direct development and humanitarian aid to Africa to more than $4 billion a year from $1.4 billion in 2001, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. And four African nations -- Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt and Uganda -- rank among the world's top 10 recipients in aid from the United States.

Beyond increasing aid to Africa, Bush has met with nearly three dozen African heads of state during his six years in office. He visited Africa in his first term, and aides say he hopes to make a return visit next year.

Although some activists criticize Bush for not doing more to end the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, others credit him for playing a role in ending deadly conflicts in Liberia, the Congo and other parts of Sudan. Meanwhile, Bush has overseen a steady rise in U.S. trade with Africa, which has doubled since 2001.

"He should be known for increasing -- doubling development assistance and tripling it to Africa after a period in which U.S. development assistance was essentially flat for decades," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a recent interview with the Associated Press. "He should be known for the largest single investment in AIDS and malaria, the biggest health investment of any government program ever."

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So who's the bigger ass, yyy or Kerry?

[trax]

Hmmm...

Looks like the yyyellowbelly has lost his steam.

I wonder why he/she won't walk down the path of logic when it's laid out on his/her yellowbrick road?

Don't just love watching these parrots paint themselves into a corner? I do. : )

"And who was president when John Kerry voted no on Kyoto? (hint: not either Bush.)How can Bush possibly be responsible for that?"

WELL?

Of course, people do go both ways!
Dorothy
Are you doing that on purpose, or can't you make up your mind?
Scarecrow
That's the trouble. I can't make up my mind. I haven't got a brain, only straw.
Scarecrow
Oh, I'm a failure, because I haven't got a brain!
Dorothy
Well, what would you do with a brain if you had one?
Scarecrow
Do? Why, if I had a brain, I could -

U could while away the hours, conferrin' with the flowers
Consultin' with the rain.
And your head U'd be scratchin' while
your thoughts were busy hatchin'
If U only had a brain.
U'd unravel every riddle for any individ'le,
In trouble or in pain.
With the thoughts you'll be thinkin'
you could be another Lincoln
If you only had a brain.

[daveinboca]

Kerry has been a pathetic America-hater since he left Vietnam after three months and three fake Purple Hearts to malign the US Armed Forces. If he didn’t live in the twisted Peoples Republic of Taxachusetts, he’d be just another ambulance chaser.

Instead he’s a skirt chaser of rich women. And still hating America after thirty-five years. Too bad we don’t have this clown running again for Prez, as he has LOSER written across his forehead.

[splashtc]

Africa-I work with a lady from Africa- her comment about Oprahs new school was "good luck, I know those people there and she better run it herself or the money will be gone."
Quite frankly too many of our politicians are a holes. Kerry not getting his facts right and current leaders for not realizing we'd be dealing with 1000 yr old tribal wars in Iraq-the information was there if anyone cared to study it.

[Conservativeidiot]

Kerry is right. Bush and most Republicans are a bunch of morons.

[Capitalist Infidel]

"Are they that willfully stupid?"

Yes

[Doug Ross]

Help us Jon Carry, our internashunal relations is all mess up!

[lincoln]

good for john kerry!!at least he's got balls. george's are missing, last seen when barney was knawing on them

[simone]

Hey Lincoln, you're wrong..As Borat says George Bush's testicles are hidden in his father, Barbara Bush's hair. LOVE IT!!!

[Jabba the Tutt]

John F'in Kerry (D-France) or John F. Kerry (D-Iran). Kerry used to be in Congress (D-Hanoi). Why can't someone run against this creep and bring up his pattern of supporting the enemies of the USA: Ho Chi Min, Daniel Ortega, the Iranian Mullahs, etc. Besides, the guy is just an unlikable creep.