European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday March 26 2007 stars and stripes Page 15 opinion in m in i Mimm Nam mar m Iraq at four years the past is indeed prologue o Here we Are four years into the when former rep Tom Andrews now it j Huft Egton so Here we Are four years into the greatest foreign policy debacle in us history four years and still no end in sight the past and the future there Are some those inside me White House and their shills in the Media and on Capitol Hill who would have you believe the two have nothing to do with each other lets not look at the past they say lets focus on where we go from Here Richard Perle one of the chief architects of the Iraq War recently offered his spin on the dont look Back mindset on meet the Russert or Perle is the War in Iraq Worth the Price weve paid Perle forgive me for saying it but i and advising the Pentagon on policy per think its the wrong question its a bit Scales abuse of the Public interest i wrote Demic for one thing but the question is is in a class by itself it was enough to when former rep Tom Andrews now director of the win without War coalition reminded Perle of this on meet the press the Prince of darkness said Well in in not going to debate your characterization of the history of our pre Vious exchanges which i think Are not accurate i never anticipated a five year occupation but Andrews was quoting him accurately so Why Are we still listening to Perle a Man clearly incapable of admitting he was wrong lets make it a Rule until someone is willing to take responsibility for their past mistakes they should not be allowed to consume precious Media oxygen offering advice about the future on March 26 2003 just Days after the us invaded Iraq i wrote a column about Perle frothing pit Bull of the Bush administrations dogs of in which i de tailed his myriad conflicts of interest in having a financial stake in the War Effort what is in our nation Al interest now what is going to make americans safer academic look ing Back at How we got to where we Are is anything but Aca Demic especially when the same people a country were still listening to people who should have lost All credibility by now make me ask and this is the Guy our president is putting his Trust in when it comes to waging War on Iraq and As a country were still listening to people who should have lost All credibility by now if responsible for this disaster Are still in you were responsible for getting us into Power or still on meet the press Tel this mess and you still wont acknowledge ing us what to do next it then How can you be part of the Solu everybody in Washington has an Opin Tion if you refuse to see the past clearly Ion about How to move Forward in Iraq How can we Trust you with the future but whether we should listen to them can Only be determined by taking a look Back Ward have they shown the ability to learn from their mistakes or Haven they at this Point in the War four years 3223 servicemen Ibers lives and nearly half a trillion or so dollars time to look Back As we look Forward does this mean Only those who were right then should have a voice now no but it does mean that if you were wrong you should fully and unequivocally acknowledge that you were wrong Hillary Clinton meet Jack otherwise you should have no say in How we go for Ward heres what Richard Perle said in sep tember 2003 a year from now ill be very surprised if there is not some grand Square in Baghdad that is named after president Bush global warming crowd finds Faith loses mind no matter How much liberals try but for questioning the science be to dress up their nutty supers i Hind global warming Lomborg was tons about global warming As brought up on charges of scientific mis science which Only Sixfin conduct by Denmark inquisition court gered lunatics could doubt scratch a Glo called the ministry of science tech nolo Hal warming scientist and Vou get a Reli by and innovation i take it Denmark s ministry of truth was booked solid that bal warming scientist and you get a religious fanatic these Days new religions Are barely up and running before they seize upon the worst aspects of the go based religions first theres the hypocrisy and corruption at the 1992 democratic convention in new York Al Gore said the Central organizing principle of govern ments everywhere must be the environment the environment would not however be the Cen trial organizing principle of Gores own life the Only place Al Gore con serves Energy these Days is on the Treadmill i dont want to suggest that als getting big but the last time i saw him on to i thought that reminds me we have to do something about saving the Polar bears never mind his Carbon foot print have you seen the size of Al Gores regular footprint lately but i digress As has been widely reported Gores Tennessee mansion consumes 20 times the Energy of the average Home in that state but its of according to the priests of global warming Gore has Pur chased Carbon offsets it took the Catholic Church hundreds of Ann Coulter Day the moment anyone diverges from offi Cial Church doctrine on global warming he is threatened with destruction Here tics would be Burnt at the stake if liberals could figure out How to do it in a Carbon Neutral Way climatologist or Timothy Ball is featured in the new documentary debunking global warming titled the great global warming swindle for this heresy Ball has received hate mail with such messages As if you continue to speak out you wont live to see further global warming in against political writers whining about their hate mail be cause it makes them sound like Paul Krugman but that Politi Cal writers arguing about ideology global warming is supposed to be Sci ence its hard to imagine Niels Bohr responding to Albert einsteins letter questioning quantum mechanics with a state ment like if you continue to speak out you wont live to see further quantum mechanics come to think of it one cant imagine years to develop corrupt practices such As the Pope writing a letter to Jerry Falwell y v Vav saying if you continue to speak out you papal indulgences the global warming re Ligion has barely been around for 20 years and yet its devotees Are allowed to pollute by the simple expedient of paying for papal indulgences called Carbon off sets americans spend an extra billion on Gas a year because there overweight requiring More fuel in cars to carry the extra pounds so even with All those papal indulgences Gore May have a Small car Bon footprint but he has a huge Carbon but print further proving that liberalism is a Reli Gion its practitioners respond with the Zeal of Torquemada to any dissent from the Faith in global warming a few years ago danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg wrote a Book titled the sceptical environmentalist disputing the hysteria surrounding global warming and other environmentalist scares Lomborg is a Greenpeace Antiwar protester or As he is described on Liberal web Sites he is a Young Gay vegetarian Dane with tight shirts his Book was cited favor ably in the new York times wont live to see further infallibility if this is How global warming devotees defend their scientific theory it May be a few tweaks Short of a scientific theory scientific facts Are not subject to Liberal bully ing which by the Way is precisely Why liberals hate science a few years ago the new York times ran an article about the continuing furious debates among physicists about quantum mechanics which differs from global warming in the sense that it is supported by physical evidence and it Doest make you feel Good inside to do something about quantum mechanics it is in Short science though he helped develop the theory of quantum mechanics Einstein immediately set to work attacking it Mit cosmologist Max Teg Mark called the constant test ing and arguing about quantum mechanics a 75year War that How a real scientific theory oper ates that even How a real religion oper ates Only a false religion needs hate mail threats courts of inquisition and Holly Wood movies to sustain it by Scott Stantis