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

To: Wayners who wrote (674010)	3/3/2005 11:50:17 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

He's been there so he should know. A serious problem with liberals is that they have a fixation on income redistribution, but unfettered it only leads to the government owning everything and killing you if you don't like it in so many cases. * * *

To: Wayners who wrote (674010)	3/4/2005 12:39:16 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush ally breaks ranks on global warming Former Secretary of State Baker seeks 'a little more attention' msnbc.msn.com Updated: 9:56 a.m. ET March 4, 2005HOUSTON - Former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, a close ally of the Bush family, broke ranks with the Bush administration on Thursday and called for the United States to get serious about global warming. Baker, in a speech to an audience that included a number of oil company executives, said “orderly” change to alternative energy was needed. “It may surprise you a little bit, but maybe it’s because I’m a hunter and a fisherman, but I think we need to a pay a little more attention to what we need to do to protect our environment,” he told the Houston Forum Club. “When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen,” Baker said. INTERACTIVE • The greenhouse effect How the Earth maintains a temperature conducive to life Baker ran presidential campaigns for George Bush and served in his Cabinet and led George W. Bush’s controversial legal fight to win the Florida vote in the 2000 election. The current Bush administration refused to sign on to the international Kyoto Treaty to combat climate change, saying it would hurt the U.S. economy. Baker said he agreed with the decision not to join Kyoto, calling it “a lousy treaty” because it did not include China and India. But he said he supported “a gradual and orderly transition” to new fuels. “I think we need to go forward with some sort of gradual, resourceful search for alternative sources,” Baker said. Many scientists blame the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil for creating a “greenhouse” effect that is warming the world climate. The United States is the leading oil consumer and top producer of greenhouse gases. Copyright 2005 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.