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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (230281)	2/23/2002 12:25:49 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769670

Shaddup you stupid moron retard. Shaddup already. The AMD, there is no Soviet Union. Kyoto Treaty was never ratified by the Senate. SHUT UP!!!!! You stupid snitch. SHUT UP!

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (230281)	2/23/2002 1:14:49 PM
From: cAPSLOCK	Respond to of 769670

the Kyoto Accords..... It's been said Bush has never met a treaty he wouldn't break.... Why on earth would you ever consider it a sane thing to keep a promise you didn't make in the first place?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (230281)	2/24/2002 8:59:27 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

The ABM treaty was made with the Soviet Union, which no longer exists, and, in any case, has an easy termination protocol: 6 months notification. The Kyoto Treaty was never ratified, and is therefore no binding......

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (230281)	2/24/2002 11:17:33 AM
From: D.Austin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"hitting a bullet with a bullet," is bullsht On May 1, President Bush laid out his program for missile defense at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington: "We need a new framework that allows us to build missile defenses to counter the different threats of today's world. To do so, we must move beyond the constraints of the 30-year-old ABM Treaty. This treaty does not recognize the present or point us to the future. It enshrines the past. No treaty that prevents us from addressing today's threats, that prohibits us from pursuing promising technology to defend ourselves, our friends and our allies is in our interests or in the interests of world peace." Carl Levin and Joseph Biden use the same ole' scare tactics they know so well. Levin told senators, "If you rip up an arms-control treaty, you could start a new kind of arms race of cold war with Russia and China." Biden recently noted, "I am deeply concerned mat unilateral action on national missile defense, and walking away from a treaty that has helped keep the peace for 30 years, may unleash a dangerous new arms race." * Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, says that President Bush is taking the right steps to back out of the 1972 ABM Treaty and deploy a strategic missile defense. In June, Bush startled his critics both in the United States and Europe by meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana to discuss missile-defense issues. Instead of rejecting the proposals out of hand, Putin indicated there was room for discussion. Bush suggested, for example, that the United States might be able to reduce its nuclear stockpile if the present ABM treaty were set aside and ballistic-missile defense were deployed. "I think Bush is on the right track, seeking cooperation with everybody who has even the slight inclination to cooperate," Teller tells Insight. "I believe that this [ABM Treaty] is a big mistake. As to the conversation of Bush and Putin, those who were surprised apparently did not realize that Bush, among his other virtues, often has an open mind." Insight asked Teller whether it would be worthwhile for the United States to reduce the nuclear stockpile as a trade-off to deploy missile defense. His reply: "Our stockpile is big. The [military] effect of nuclear weapons is so strong, so overwhelming, that a great number of them may not be necessary. I think the reduction of the stockpile is not a very essential fact; and I think it may be necessary, it may be a good idea. I am not opposed to it. I am not advocating it, but I believe that reduction might conceivably be something that would make people a little more relaxed. It is not something that is really important, because even a smaller stockpile would be very significant." Edward Teller "I wish I could tell you more about the future, but I know more about the last 100 years. I was once asked if I would have liked to live in another time, and I said no, I have adapted to this period and I cannot imagine living in any other. But then I corrected myself: I was born too late. I would have liked to have been born a quarter of a century earlier because just after I was born and in my first few years science made incredible advances. What was impossible became reality. Relativity, a new understanding of space and time; even more importantly, quantum mechanics that Einstein himself never understood, and which I learned from one of its fathers, Werner Heisenberg. It had the very particular property that it found out that the future is truly unpredictable." Teller continued: "I want to explain to you what quantum mechanics is. In the past century, if a physicist believed in God, he had to admit that God was unemployed. He had created a world with all the causality that determined everything in the future. So what else was to be done? Quantum mechanics discovered that the future was forever undetermined, that creation is forever incomplete. You can no longer think of anything like God as having finished the task. "What we have discovered about the future is that the future is undetermined, that the next century -- about which I am now talking -- is unpredictable because it depends upon what you people and our children will want to make of this coming century. Will they find a way to use the incredibly increased knowledge, and further increase knowledge, in biology for everybody's benefit -- all the while preserving the wonderful difference between nations in a peaceful manner? To realize that might be the highest aim of the next century. And all I can do is pray for your success." ----------- Kyoto Accords---more bullsh*t