Bush Threatens U.N. Over Clinton Climate Speech

New York Magazine ...

Bush-administration officials privately threatened organizers of the U.N. Climate Change Conference, telling them that any chance there might’ve been for the United States to sign on to the Kyoto global-warming protocol would be scuttled if they allowed Bill Clinton to speak at the gathering today in Montreal, according to a source involved with the negotiations who spoke to New York Magazine on condition of anonymity.

Bush officials informed organizers of their intention to pull out of the new Kyoto deal late Thursday afternoon, soon after news leaked that Clinton was scheduled to speak, the source said.

“It’s just astounding,” the source told New York Magazine. “It came through loud and clear from the Bush people—they wouldn’t sign the deal if Clinton were allowed to speak.” Clinton spokesman Jay Carson confirmed the behind the dustup took place and that the former president had decided not to go out of fear of harming the negotiations, but Carson declined to comment further.


On Friday afternoon, Clinton did end up speaking at the conference, a global audience of diplomats, environmentalists, and others who were in the final hours of a two-week gathering devoted to discussing the future of the protocol, the existing emissions-controls agreement. In 1997, Al Gore, then vice-president, helped negotiate the protocol, but it never passed the Senate. In 2001, it was formally renounced by the Bush administration, which argues that cutting greenhouse-gas emissions would hurt the American economy.


http://newyorkmag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/15314/index.html

They are truly despicable!

Now they are going to blame Clinton again.

Unbelievable!

Despicable evil whining babies.
I've never heard of such immature bullshit before.
I'm not sure if the bush White House need a
truckload of diapers or straightjackets or both.

I hope the UN tells em to stuff it.

is my guess. The Bush team was caught by surprise and of course Rove came up with a Lame excuse.

it's not like anything concrete or positive would have come from this administration anyway.

to be scuttled.

They cannot stand that something is going on without them. That is as it will be. For all institutions if Bush continues on this path.

Oh - and would it not have been better for the security of Iraqis if Saddam was tried at the War Crimes Tribunal?