Having lived in Florida for the past nearly 20 years I can gave an account of what it was like to go through the destructive power of Hurricane Wilma as it struck in Forth Lauderdale, where I now live in a high rise condo.

Hurricanes are a far more horrifying experience than the earthquake I went through during my 30 years of living in southern California.  That includes the last one I experienced in 1986 when I lived near Palm Springs, two miles from the epicenter.  My mountainside residence shook with a sharp jolt as dishes fell out of kitchen cupboards, smashing on a tile floor.   The quake jolts lasted only a few nerve-wracking seconds.

Hurricane Wilma lasted for about 14 hours, beginning around 2 a.m., when my balcony door was pulled open by the forceful 150 mph winds.  The howling winds continued as the tropical downpour lashed against bending palm trees.  Metal shutters protected my windows from braking.  On higher floors, where the wind hits harder, and with no metal shutter protection, some condo units experienced smashed windows and water damage.  

Stop and think for one moment and examine the position of the Republican majority of the Senate and House regarding the Greenhouse Effect.

For years scientists have warned about the Greenhouse Effect because of the pollution that the U.S. businesses are spitting into our atmosphere that are warming up the oceans.  When the ocean's temperature becomes hotter, hurricanes are destined to follow.

Would brain trust Bush attend the Kyoto Conference on the environment?  He was a no show at Kyoto but has been making a prominent impact on the U.S. pollution scene as this nation contributes 50 percent or more of pollution worldwide.  During his tenure as Texas governor, Houston's air became the nation's worst under the relaxed standards he helped bring into effect for industry, resulting in substantial increases in asthma among the young and elderly in that city.  Brother Governor Jeb sold out to big oil in Florida, a typical event for a Bush, by opting to remove emission standards for automobiles.

Throughout the world people gasp as they analyze the Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma disasters.  This same Cheney-Bush unelected ruling Junta is now seeking to explain the calamitous inaction that has resulted in scores of deaths and caused great suffering for so many who survived.  

Never let it be said that Cheney-Bush Incorporated move slowly all the time.  Take the Iraq War, for example.  After Cheney and Bush flooded the airwaves frightening Americans with an unproven claim that the citizenry faced an imminent "giant mushroom cloud" in the form of attack from Saddam Hussein's arsenal of "weapons of mass destruction."

When Hans Blix led his team of United Nations weapons inspectors into Iraq and sought more time to complete that effort, the vigilant Junta ruled that no further delay could be countenanced, even after Saddam Hussein had begun destroying his already minimized arsenal.  There were even slurs against Blix being a Swede, meaning he had to be some kind of a pacifist to be scorned, to be sure, by the tough computer terminal warriors who one generation earlier opted out of Vietnam service.  This was a slur in the same vein as pegging the French as spineless quiche eaters.  Remember, when they served it on Air Force One is was Freedom Toast as they scuttled the old "discredited" name of French Toast.