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Valiant:
Not sure what you want for a link... it's several stories actually.. heard about the Dutch offer on CNN today at lunchtime and several radio stations said the same thing during the afternoon while I was driving.... Heard about the amount of oil spilling now being equal to the Exxon Valdise spill while driving home this evening on WINS (1010 AM Dial in NY) I would imagine that you can find both stories on their websites somewhere.

I didn't include the story about the 5(?) man expert panel that made the original assessment about the oil spill to the White House that is now denying that they ever suggested a moritorium on drilling that the White House stated was in their recommendations... seems someone in the White House made that part up and inserted those two parragraphs into the report... (Funny that as soon as that story broke today the White House recinded the moritorium and is now allowing deep water drilling again). (Heard that story on Lou Dobbs this afternoon.)

You said:

There is plenty of blame to go around, but lets not lose focus of the fact that BP committed the acts. Just because the past three administrations, including this one, turned their heads when it came to regulations, doesn't mean they hold all the blame. They told them they could have the gun, but BP pulled the trigger".

And you are entirelly correct. But that wasn't the reason for my post. My post was to bring attention to the fact that the present administration has been almost criminally neglagent in it's response (or lack of it) to the oil spill. They and they alone hold all the blame for how they have handled this spill so far. They have lied to the American public at large, they have done NOTHING except point fingers. I really don't want to know who's *** the president thinks he needs to kick... I want the damn spill stopped and I want the people that are losing their jobs to be compensated for their loss... then we can talk about who is to blame. I wasn't pointing fingers at who caused it, or how it started... I was talking about what's being done now. If you want my opinion about who caused it see my posts in various other places in this thread. I agree with you that BP pulled the trigger and that they are to blame for the spill, and have already stated as much. But the blame for the horrible, do nothing response to what is shaping up to be the single worst ecological disaster in American history rests solely on the present White House.