Bush rejects climate-change targets....then acts like a petulant child as he leaves G8 summit....

[marmar]

What a f**king embarassment this POS is. :argh:



from the Independent UK:



Bush to G8: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'

After rejecting global climate-change targets, George Bush's parting shot to the G8 summit

By Andrew Grice, Political Editor in Hokkaido
Thursday, 10 July 2008



President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit.

As he prepared to fly out from Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

President Bush made the private joke in the summit's closing session, senior sources said yesterday. His remarks were taken as a two-fingered salute from the President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry. He had given some ground at the summit by saying he would "seriously consider" a 50 per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050.

But green groups had protested that the meeting was a missed opportunity to secure the radical reductions in carbon emissions that were needed to reduce global warming. China and India, who were among the emerging economies invited to the summit, refused to sign up to binding agreements without firmer commitments from the US and the other industrialised nations to cut their CO2 emissions.

However, there was progress towards a deal on the world trade talks in Geneva. On the final day of their three-day summit, the G8 countries agreed to instruct their negotiators to make every effort to secure a deal when talks resume on 21 July.

Although a similar call by the G8 summit two years ago failed to break the deadlock in the seven-year trade talks, officials are more confident that this month's negotiations will be successful. They say there is a growing recognition that it will be much harder to secure a deal after a new US President takes office next January because of pressures to protect American farmers during this year's election campaign – and that a new global trade framework may never be struck. .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bush-to-g8-goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter-863911.html

[lovuian]

1. this man is totally irrational

He definitely is out of control

[SpiralHawk]

21. This is the photo that goes with the story

Take a close look at Commander AWOL Bush. Study his face.

In connection with his small, bitter, petulant statement at G8, this photo is REVELATORY of the republicon character who has stolen America from it's citizens and instituted instead a freaking totalitarian Homeland infamous for wars of profit, for wholesale, systematic torture, and for uninhibited spying on American citizens.

[Cherchez la Femme]

26. Hideous as it is

at least he's up against a wall

and a BRICK wall, at that!

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Long Live King George the Mad King.

Unfucking believable.

'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'

He's fucking Mad.

[Theres-a]

3. It never ends with that POS.

1/20/09

[Aviation Pro]

4. Cover your eyes if you're offended by base language

And goodbye to you in six months you wasted dribble from your wimpy daddy's nutsack (that somehow formed in the fetid womb of the Silver Douchebag) you motherfucking, c***s***ing c***.

Go fuck yourself and the motherfucking hobby horse you rode in on.

[Ilsa]

5. Thanks for saying it for me. nt

[Aviation Pro]

6. It gives me no pleasure....

...to refer to a President of the United States that way, but then again it was never elected.

[givemebackmycountry]

7. I'm telling you, I got a bad feeling about the next few months....

This is the only human being in the world that consistently makes me want to puke every time I hear his name spoken.
The reason for the knot in my stomach?

He ain't going anywhere come November.
They got the brass ring, and they don't plan on handing it over anytime soon.

Please tell me I'm wrong.

[irislake]

14. I'm afraid I agree

that Bush won't be leaving in November. The COG (Continuity of Government) plan, the spying, the internment camps, the provisions for martial law, the partially completed coup d'etat, plus the fear of the truth coming out about 9/11? Doesn't look good. Those guys are evil and crazy and ruthless and desparate! Good luck!

[Aviation Pro]

20. 250,000,000 weapons in private hands tell me you're wrong....

...the one freedom that the current pack of bastards are scared to infringe upon is the ace in the hole for we the people.

[Canuckistanian]

8. I have great sympathy for your embarrassment

However, Canada is one of the countries singled out as the greatest impediments to progress on global climate change as identified by Greenpeace.

The other countries were Japan, India and the United States.

We should all be ashamed of ourselves.

[marmar]

9. Yep. Stephen Harper's a creep too.....and he looks like some kind of humanoid.

But on a raw, "I can't believe he's our president" level, it's hard to top the occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

[Canuckistanian]

13. No argument from me

Harper is STILL a Bush wannabe, in both policy and intelligence, although as you say, not on the same plane as Bush's idiocy.

The good news for us is that Harper is hanging on by his fingernails, dreading the day when our Liberals FINALLY get their act together.

[pnorman]

10. Did that creepy corksucker actually SAY that?

Beyond belief! (Well, almost). At first I thought it might have been from The Onion! But Googling that quote, I found it confirmed beyond question. Here it is in the Seattle PI: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/370165_bushgoodbyeonline10.html

I sense a Horsey cartoon in the offing!

pnorman
On edit: I couldn't find the Horsey cartoon I was looking for (it was the one with an oil pipeline passed right through Dubya's pointed skull, from ear to ear). But this will do for the moment:

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. I believe that BushCo stand ready to profit wildly from global warming.

Those with the most resources can withstand change, and profit from it most significantly. Please read the short article at the link in my signature line.

Edit: As I may change my signature at some point:

"What is driving the ANWR push is not facts but pure shock doctrine strategy--the oil crisis has created the conditions in which it is possible to sell a previously unsellable (but highly profitable) policy."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/lookout

[dysfunctional press]

12. "His remarks were taken as a two-finger salute"...?

it sounded more like a one-finger salute to me...



"good-bye, from the world's biggest polluter piece-of-shit"

[TlalocW]

15. This is the UK press reporting

In England, it's a two fingered salute - a peace sign with the back of the hand turned to whomever you're giving it to, and a quick movement upwards.

His dad got in trouble for giving the peace sign (probably more like the V for Victory sign) in a parade in Australia. Apparently he wasn't holding his hands in quite the correct position to distinguish between the two.

TlalocW

[XOKCowboy]

16. Gosh it's good to know that this is his message to the world...

and you know he's by default speaking for the rest of the United States. I'm so proud.

[ribrepin]

19. Nah, Bush was giving a double barrel salute

Wish I could find a picture of Bush with both fingers up...plenty with one finger raised.

[Lugnut]

17. What an asshole.

Maybe not. At least assholes are useful.

[FourScore]

18. Did he really say that??? You gotta be kidding.

I'm speechless.

k/r

[elehhhhna]

22. "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." One sick man.

[bdamomma]

23. nothing new coming from an arrogant POS

he ought to slapped down, I just hate the man.

[Bluebear]

24. "The President from Texas who is wedded to the oil industry" - pity America forgets that

[Vanje]

25. " He then punched the air while grinning widely"

"His final words to the likes of British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

That was the report from the British press, citing "senior sources" who said Bush made the private joke as he was about to leave Japan on Wednesday.

It stunned his partners, according to the Telegraph, which said:

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock."



http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/presidentbush/2008/07/i...