Tim: "I still do not understand why people do not like Bush."
Many reasons. Here are a couple of biggies:
"A British minister suggested a shift in foreign policy away from the United States, telling an audience in Washington that
a country's strength depended on making global alliances rather than military might."
"In a speech late on Thursday, International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said while Britain stood beside the United States in fighting terrorism,
isolationism did not work in an interdependent world."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070713/ts_nm/britain_usa_dc_2;_ylt=AgrwnIFIfnuqouYXpIDGylOEDvII [13-07-2007]
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A slight thread detour - here's the kind of truth, refuted by creationists, that scientists offer for the good of everyone:
Professor Salzberg (director of the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Maryland and lead author of a recent study that sequenced the genomes of more than 200 human influenza viruses) argues that creationists of various kinds, including proponents of ID, commit a very dangerous disservice to the well being of people in trying to downplay the teaching of evolution and undermine people's trust in it by casting doubts on the fact of evolution.
This creationist activity is especially sinister in view of the hazards of new viral and microbial pandemics, including the avian flew and other ever-reemerging viral infections, which can be successfully fought only based on the concepts of evolutionary biology.Bush, the Flu and Evolution -- by Steven Salzberg, Ph.D. (Nov 2005)
http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20051117.073638"Why has the debate about evolution re-emerged? Perhaps it is because few people see the obvious effects of evolution that geneticists and evolutionary biologists see every day. Consider the influenza virus. Like many viruses, it mutates very fast, creating many slightly different strains that compete to see which ones can infect their host most efficiently. Each year we create a new flu vaccine, which although not perfect is very effective.
Why do we need a new vaccine every year? In a word, evolution. Each year the flu accumulates many mutations, and some of those mutations allow it to avoid the vaccine. These resistant strains quickly take over - that's what Darwin meant by phrase "natural selection" - and become next year's flu strain. The same thing happens with bacteria, and this is why our over-use of antibiotics - in animal feed, hand soaps, and a growing number of other products - is hastening the evolution of frightening new antibiotic-resistant bacteria."
