What Osama forgets to mention is that his family made their millions through the oil industry. I would also bet that even now he is funded largely through rich Saudi oil families.

Castro, on the other hand, is walking the talk, as a previous poster has already mentioned. Because Cuba can no longer get the oil imports it needs, it has become a model for organic agriculture. Havana, for example grows most of its own food within city limits. No matter what you think about Castro and his government, this is an impressive accomplishment.

Every rightwinger is waiting with bated breath for the Indians and Chinese to overtake us in carbon emissions. Then they can breathe a sigh of relief and blame 'them.' You can see it below from symbolina.

China's economy is growing because all of our manufacturing was shipped over there. I.E. Wal-Mart, etc. We are using the China as a cheap labor pollution dump. So guess what, we are still not off the hook. Just follow the trail of merchandise heading to our shores.

And do you know what is really fascinating?

Cuba has moved away from that old, clunky infrastructure because they no longer can get ahold of the stuff they need to maintain it. You know, what with that old, clunky Soviet Union collapsing.

when I heard about Bin Ladens recant statements about the enviroment and Noam Chompski books is that he must be on the GOP payroll.

Is that old Soviet era clunky infrastructure pollutes far more than anything Fidel complains about. And since there is no gating force and no oversight you have to take it on faith that the great leader has your interests in mind. I guess so, I mean what's not to trust?

And FWIW more people will die of environmental pollution from Osama's terrorism than all the big bad greehouse gassing factories in Great Satan-stan.

The #1 and #2 producers of CO2 today are China and India. Now unless I'm Miss Teen USA South Carolina and can't find everything like such as maps, those two countries aren't the US. But hey WTF do I know I'm only a social democrat not a retard.

I am concerned about global warming and not at all disheartened by Fidel Castro and Osama bin Laden calling the U.S. to task over it. If they want to call us to task for ignoring the the cautionary warning of Dwight D. Eisenhower:

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

That's fine. I can take the criticism.

to continue trashing castro is pathetic. if you actually gave a shit, you would also care about the rest of central and south america. leave cuba alone.

Way to go Leonard. You brought out the nutjobs. Because both Castro and Bin Laden mentioned Kyoto in the same week? Perhaps Pelosi mentioned it too...oh oh.

Cuba actually has converted over 80% of their agriculture to organic, oil-free methods. This was forced on them by the collapse of the USSR. But it provides a laboratory for getting off the 'gasloline' fix. Cuba is years ahead of the US in this respect, which is still an oil-driven semi monoculture controlled by several large agri-monopolies. Cuban scientists are actually teaching these organic and non-oil methods to other countries in Latin America and Africa.

The House just passed the agriculture bill, with hardly any changes in policy. The Senate will probably rubber stamp it and there you go, 5 more years of clueless agriculture, with ADM getting money for not growing crops, or providing money to ADM to support the price of you name it.

So who is the joke really on?

We have a word for that, it's branding. Anyway, how far is Castro's carefully branded American myth all that different from the myth the left holds dearest about itself? And Osama? Anyone who wants Americans dead can't be all bad. That's practically on the letterhead here @ Salon.

But hey, relax. Once upon a time gazillions of years ago, the planet Earth was ruled by archaeobacteria and had a (sniff,sniff) methane atmosphere. Then came this little feller called cyanobacteria that began to proliferate and "pollute" the darned place with oxygen, and then... Well you know the story.

So take a deep breath (toke) and relax... Relax... Relax.

P.S. By the way, ole' Osami Been Laid's latest vid, he was lookin' kinda' green.

This is really sick. This is sick when two sick evil men like that are jumping on the environment bandwagon.

I mean what kind of sick evil monster puts people in prison just because they wrote something that was mildly critical of socialism?

Bin Laden needs to read what Marx says about the status of women. Oh yeah and about religion. According to Marx, Bin Laden is a heroin dealer.

And Castro just needs to die so his victims can find closure and move on.