how someone with no communication skills whatsoever can manage to become President in this media day and age.

He warned that if Iraq became a failed state, extremists could gain access to oil wealth and launch fresh attacks.

His comments come two weeks ahead of crucial mid-term elections, amid public dissatisfaction over policy in Iraq.

Speaking at a press conference at the White House, Mr Bush said recent events, including the deaths of 93 US troops and more than 300 Iraqi security personnel, were of "serious concern" to him.

But he warned that if the US was not successful in Iraq, extremists could use it as a base from which to try to establish a "radical empire from Spain to Indonesia".

.... perhaps he should have listened to the anti-war movement - who predicted ALL of this !

Bush only mumbles and bumbles when he's try to be pleasant and conciliatory.

Get him in "string 'em up" mode and the words do flow well enough.

JK2006 wrote:
how someone with no communication skills whatsoever can manage to become President in this media day and age.

Oh I don't know, he said "WE'RE GOIN' TA MARS!" quite well!

<<<< Oh I don't know, he said "WE'RE GOIN' TA MARS!" quite well! >>>>

He's already on Mars !!!!

The way things are panning out, Mars may be coming to us... a rusty, overly radioactive, wasteland, with no atmosphere worth speaking about...

There never was any; too cold.

But as global warming continues, the Earth will burn out (as happened to Venus) and become too hot for life which will develop on Mars, as it warms...
The frozen ice below the surface will melt and turn to water.

Life will then emerge for a few million centuries - then, in due course, as the Sun gets hotter, it too will burn out and the next in line (Jupiter? Saturn?) will warm up... and so on.

I think the Sun is getting hotter and hotter until it will eventually burn out.

Am I mad?

JK2006 wrote:
There never was any; too cold.

But as global warming continues, the Earth will burn out (as happened to Venus) and become too hot for life which will develop on Mars, as it warms...
The frozen ice below the surface will melt and turn to water.

Life will then emerge for a few million centuries - then, in due course, as the Sun gets hotter, it too will burn out and the next in line (Jupiter? Saturn?) will warm up... and so on.

I think the Sun is getting hotter and hotter until it will eventually burn out.

Am I mad?

I never eliminate insanity as a root cause for my ideas...

Potentially, Jupiter could get enough mass to ignite during the death throes of the Sun, but it's unlikely.

As to life... looking at the profligate way the rocky planets swap bits of themselves, life had had every chance of going to, or coming from(!), Mars

Having dabbled in Astronomy, I keep a weather eye on developments, and currently it looks (to me) like it's been possible for primitive life to have existed in the universe for around 12 billion (US billion) years, give or take...

My reasoning is linked here(The reasoning, calculation et all are all mine... so if it's wrong then it's mea culpa, mea maxima culpa)

As to Mars being too cold. If there was running water, then it was warm enough. Life is a tough thing... it can survive in the unlikeliest places...