What we REALLY need to do to bring down energy costs is this: end the illegal self-defeating occupation of Iraq, which is the PRIMARY cause of the political instability in the Middle East which has so exacerbated oil prices. We need also to implement a crash program to develop renewable biofuel resources. (Then they can swim in their oil if they want to.) We need dramatic policy change and we need it now, or else as Louis XV used to say (or maybe it was Noah), "After me, the deluge."
To his credit on at least one measure, John McCain has sworn that unless his amendment (passed 90-9 in the Senate) to ban torture is included intact in the new defense bill he will add it to every subsequent Senate bill from now on. The ban is against "cruel" punishment among other things. It is time that we renounce the voices of cruelty in all other areas of our government as well. This shameful budget bill must not pass without major revision. It is time for people who are NOT cruel to speak out against those who are. Your members of the house of Representatives are all up for election next year. It would not hurt to remind them of that.Next Page 1 | 2
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