Top Republican Rejects Advice from 11 Generals on Coping with Climate Change and National Defense

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A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

President Bush and top Republican leaders have been ignoring the advice of our generals for years on Iraq and Afghanistan. Now the top House Intelligence Committee Republican is rejecting the advice of our generals about how to deal with the implications of global warming on national security.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the Intel Committee's former chairman and current ranking member, is going on the media circuit to blast a bipartisan bill that would require a National Intelligence Estimate and other evaluations of the impacts on military operations from climate change. This week he has written an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal and given an interview on Fox News.

A commission of eleven retired three-star and four-star admirals and generals from all four branches support the proposal. They drafted a report, "National Security and the Threat of Climate Change," which explores ways that climate change will exacerbate conditions promoting terrorism and other threats around the world. It specifically calls for a national defense assessment of the impact of global warming.

Full story here: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/242

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[Forkboy]

3. Bush makes me feel safe and warm all over.

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