Foggy Weather

A zone of high pressure has parked itself over the Puget Sound over the past couple weeks, and there have been a lot of cold nights, which have given way to dense fog, which usually burns off by late morning or early afternoon and leaves the sky open and clear, and the cycle repeats itself. I love the fog personally. But the freezing fog is unpleasant on the lungs.

The air mass has become stagnant at the same time, due to thermal inversion and a lack of mixing. So there is a lot of pollution - smoke and particulates - in the air as well. My lungs could use some fresh air.

The Decider

The problem is that Bush is the decider, but his decisions are not good ones. His decisions are not right for America, for Iraq, or for the world.

It's not okay to decide to invade and occupy a nation because of a desire to control its natural resources (that's oil, folks).

And that is what the USA has done in Iraq. The invasion and nearly 4 years of occupation have been about establishing geo-strategic and geo-economic dominance. It's a Project for a New American Century.

In other words, Iraq is hot property, and George Bush (et al.) decided to go for it; whatever the cost. Unfortunately, the cost has been immeasurably high for a great many uncounted hundreds of thousands Iraqis and Americans alike, who have suffered grievous harm as a result of the callous and careless, illegal and immoral war of aggression that the Bush Administration has foisted upon the world.

Sad.