An Inconvenient Truth

There is an inconvenient truth that many on the left don't want to recognize.

The fact is that President Bush may have done more for the environment than any President in history. There I said it! Sure former VP Al Gore gets all the press for being Captain Planet but the truth is President Bush deserves the recognition.

The "world's largest protected marine area is being created around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, an archipelago 1,400 miles long and 100 miles wide that is home to rare marine mammals, fishes and birds." President Bush did this. Do you recall this being trumpeted in the press? Or were they too busy hyping Gore's movie?

What Bush did was the "single-largest act of ocean conservation in history" and yet do you remember all the fuss made about what Bush did? Or was there silence because it was Bush who did it?

Al Gore gets all the press as the environmentally conscious guy but it would roughly take everyone who has seen his movie buying more than 44 acres of wilderness apiece to equal what President Bush did with a stroke of his pen.

President Clinton set aside 5.9 million acres as protected land during his 8 years in office (with Gore as his VP). With this act - Bush just created a preserve that covers the equivalent of 89.6 million acres - an ocean area larger than the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

This isn't the only thing Bush has done for the environment. Do you remember the Marsh Arabs of Iraq and how Saddam Hussein destroyed the Tigris-Euphrates river and marsh systems? This is an area that covers over 59 million acres in what many believe was the Biblical area that included the Garden of Eden. The ecology of the Tigris-Euphrates river system is being restored as we speak under the Bush administration but when is the last time you heard a peep about the Marsh Arabs and their environment in the main stream media?

Al Gore gets all press for flying around the world in his private jet and giving speeches while President Bush can go about restoring the Garden of Eden and not get any credit.