Bush on the US Role as a Global Polluter

This article reports on Bush and Blair denying that they were planning a military invasion of Iraq in spite of the evidence to the contrary contained in the Downing Street Memo. The fact that they're flatly denying their documented actions is baffling enough. But down at the bottom, the last paragraph is this little nugget concerning global warming:

"I've always said it's a serious long-term issue that needs to be dealt with," Bush said. "We lead the world when it comes to dollars spent, millions of dollars spent on research about climate change. We want to know more about it. It's easier to solve a problem when you know a lot about it."

Of course, he neglected to mention that we also lead the world in pollutants spent into the environment. And it's assinine to claim that we don't know enough about pollution to do anything about it yet.