Wildfires are raging in southern In 2003, the Associated Press detailed an FBI memo that said an al-Qaeda detainee talked of a plan to set wildfires in the western United States:
PHOENIX (AP) — The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States.
The alleged plan, which had three to four terrorists setting separate fires in different states, was never confirmed true. But if a handful of fires can be attributed to terrorism, what about the other dozen? According to Senator Harry Reid (D-Nev.), it's global warming:
“One reason why we have the fires in
Moments later, when asked by a reporter if he really believed global warming caused the fires, he appeared to back away from his comments, saying there are many factors that contributed to the disaster.
That explains the causes, but why can't we put them out? Obviously it doesn't have anything to do with stronger-than-usual Santa Ana winds. There must be another target at which we can point our fingers – how about President Bush, and the War in Iraq?
President Bush isn’t doing a heck of a job balancing National Guard call-ups to Iraq with states’ needs back home – and that’s crimping the government response to the California wildfires, according to the man who took the blame for the botched federal reaction to Hurricane Katrina.
Michael D. Brown, former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told WJLA-TV reporter Rebecca Cooper in an exclusive interview Wednesday that the administration has not recognized how much of a “problem” it has with disaster response since so many National Guard troops are in war zones.
Even if this fire eventually comes under control, the only thing Californians have to look forward to is a century of suffering and eternal torment in raging hellfire:
Although [CNN’s Anderson] Cooper admitted that, “no one really knows for sure,” the broadcast still took the time to predict the future with CNN’s Tom Foreman who warned of a possible “century of fires, just like what we're seeing now” as a result of global warming.
"Climatologists say, while we can't blame on fire on climate change, we can say that these factors are combining in that area [Southern California] to set up what could be a century of fires just like what we're seeing now," said Foreman.
No wonder 7-11 year olds have a "pervasive anxiety" about their lives and the world they live in:
Primary-aged children worry daily about global warming and terrorism as well as their friendships and passing the next exam, according to a report based on 700 in-depth interviews with children, their teachers and parents, which will feed into the biggest independent review of primary education in 40 years.
Give me a break.
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