I’m glad you’re willing to tackle this subject area; your scientific background and experience add valuable perspective to the discussion.

kirk @ 168 – A more comprehensive, edited/refined version of your comment, with a number of the research data links included, would make a good front-page post here sometime, I think. The post-war conversion of the modern industrial war machine – created by Hitler and his industrialists and copied by those forced to back Germany down – into a domestic peacetime pollution and “factory agriculture” industry in the name of almighty corporate profit, is yet another UNreported reality of post-WWII American life that the new Congress could/should certainly start to address, with the incidence of cancer in our lives starting to look more and more like an epidemic.

thanks, pow wow!

I’ve been fiddling on one to submit to the Powers of the Lake – I should hurry up and finish.

Thanks for the prompt!

Thus, the Bush/Cheney EPA was criminally negligent in doing it’s congressionally mandated duty. Politics once again overshadowed the health and well-being of U.S. citizens, specifically those in New York either working at Ground Zero or living close by.

So, the four criminally-insane Justices on the Supreme Court who just dissented and sided with the Bush/Cheney criminally-run EPA have indicated just how corrupt they really are.

When Democrats gain a clear and large majority in both branches of the U.S. Congress after the November 2008 elections (as well as gaining the White House), Democrats should hold impeachment hearings in early 2009 and remove all four of these criminally-insane Justices, Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas, because it is quite obvious that they have been just as criminally-negligent in their uber-partisan decisions as Bush’s and Cheney’s criminally-negligent EPA has been in it’s uber-partisan decisions…and people have died or suffered unnecessarily or been tortured because of these flagrantly partisan decisions.

I think we’ve all had about enough of the Bush/Cheney suck-ups on the Supreme Court, criminally-insane Justices who have served only as enablers to the worst administration in American history.

A Dionne article in WaPo for the popular vote in Presidential elections:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00808.html

I heard the Andrea Mitchell report — I thought she said that Petraeus gave a video conference briefing to several officials, both Repub and Dems; according to Mitchell/sources, he indicated he thought that he would be able to show progress by August. She also said that Republicans were prepared to stay with Bush until then, but if there was no progress by then, they would stop supporting the war. That’s what I heard.

AS I pointed out last night though, any quick look at monthly casualty trends over the last four years would make the August call an easy bet. And if you want to understand why, just look at the weather in Iraq June-Sept. Too hot and dusty to do anything. But what is Petraitor going to say when the bloodbath starts again in October?