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

[seafan]

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

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



(AP) George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets

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.

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[bdamomma]

1. this man needs to be slapped down.

really, I don't care anymore he has caused enough damage.

[NC_Nurse]

2. ..and the world's biggest asshole."

[undeterred]

3. the immaturity of an adolescent

[Sheets of Easter]

4. I wonder how many of those world leaders deeply despise him.

I mean, when you cut through the niceties, how many just deeply loathe the asshole.

I'm guessing at least G6 or G7.

[DailyGrind51]

5. How in the Hell did a clown like him ever get to be President?

I wish it was Constitutionally possible to impose a tax surcharge on everyone who re-elected him in 2004, just to pay for the damage he's done!

[forintegrity]

9. both elections were stolen

that's how.

[SpiralHawk]

6. What a small, vindictive, failed man George AWOL Bush is

That photo says it all: republicon smallness, incompetence, fear, and sniggling, smirking, vengeful hate personified.

Just study his face in this photo, worth re-posting, for it -- in combination with AWOL's petulant 'worst polluter, smirk' utterance -- reveals soooo much of the republicon character:

[spanone]

7. hey mr president, go fuck yourself

[bdamomma]

8. I really hope to see the day when this man pays.

hey Agent Mike!!!