BushCo Slams Canadian PM over "Global Conscience" on Global Warming

Well, I declare. Nevah has the Bush White House been SO "slighted"... well, not since Gerhard Schroeder anyway.

I hope above all hope that the Big Dawg shows some balls when he speaks this afternoon as a Sierra Club-invited "side-event" in Montreal.

The USA should have a "global conscience"? What a horrible insult. Stomp that cricket, Preznit Pinocchio.

From cbc.ca

The White House has officially complained about Prime Minister Paul Martin's comments this week at the climate change conference in Montreal.

A senior official in the Bush administration has told Canadian Ambassador Frank McKenna that Martin's comments are the worst slight against the president since Germany's Gerhard Schroeder suggested President George W. Bush's stance against the Kyoto Protocol was responsible for hurricane Katrina.

"There is such as thing as a global conscience," Martin said Wednesday at the UN Conference on Climate Change.

"Now is the time to listen to it. Now's the time to join with others in our global community. Now is the time for resolve, for commitment and leadership and, above all, now is the time for action. Because only by coming together can we make real and lasting progress."

In October, outgoing chancellor Schroeder said: "I can think of a recent disaster that shows what happens when a country neglects its duties of state towards its people .... My post as chancellor, which I still hold, does not allow me to name that country, but you all know that I am talking about America."

Later today, Martin will be meeting with former U.S. president Bill Clinton at the conference.