Todays visit to the UK by George W. Bush will be the first official State visit by a US President to this country. Bush's State visit is aimed at meeting Queen Elizabeth, but his bed partner and poodle, 'President' Blair will be no doubt be welcoming Bush with open arms to this seemingly '51st State' of the Union. The massive security surrounding the visit will cost and rip-off the British taxpayer by this spendthrift Labour Government to the tune of £5 million and tie-up 14,000 of our police. With anti-American feelings running high, anti-War protesters will be out in force in their thousands marching against Bush's visit, the war in Iraq and the current 'occupation' of that beleaguered country.

Although Bush's post-9/11 and current US foreign policy is probably the worst by any American President in history, have many of these protesting groups got it wrong? Are they misguided? Will they be protesting for the wrong reasons?

It's clear that anti-American feelings around the World over recent years have been fundamentally caused by a poor and inappropiate American foreign policy. The US support of Israel and that's countries stance against Palestine has clearly upset the Islamic world and has created the many fundamentalists and their associated acts of terrorism.

Few people actually believe that the war in Iraq was because of WMD's, the liberation of the Iraqi people from the grip of Saddam Hussein, or to combat global terrorism. With Iraq holding the second largest reserves of crude oil in the world (112,500 million barrels), most intelligent people believe rightly, that the war and subsequent occupation of Iraq and that region of the Middle East by the USA and its allies is directly related to the security of future energy supplies, and a continuing flow of oil to the West - especially to the USA. The Iraq 'conspiracy theory' perpetrated by Blair and Bush is not that far fetched.

Any anti-American protests in and around London should be squarely aimed at the scandalous usage and waste of energy that drives the US economy and is stripping the World of its natural resources. The USA's thirst for energy and their need to secure future oil supplies in order to drive their massive global machine is indeed directly related to both the war in Iraq, the occupation of that region by the USA and its allies, and Bush's hawkish attitude towards nations who dare to bear arms or who are not deemed 'democratic'.

Consider this. If you discovered that 5% of the UK population was eating up a quarter of the world's oil production a day, how would you feel? You'd probably feel that the 5% were elitists and totally irresponsible in using up this valuable resource.

FACT: The population of USA equals 4.6% of the world population - but the USA uses more than a quarter (26%) of the world's oil production (20,000 million barrels) every day! See: OilWatch

FACT: The USA (and the West) is heavily dependent on oil that not only drives their massive economies, but has created so-called globalisation that continues to allow American big business to exploit and leave the poorer nations in dire poverty and millions starving around the world whilst most Americans get richer and fatter.

FACT: The USA refused to sign-up to the Kyoto Agreement in 1997 to help reduce global warming. Bush has broken his promise to reduce carbon emissions. See: Bush Administration Errs on Kyoto Global Warming Agreement

FACT: US oil stocks are lower at any time than in the last 27 years. Black-outs in California will continue, and brown-outs in other parts of the USA and Europe are predicted.

FACT: Whilst most countries in the Western world are now scrambling to find viable alternative sources of energy to satisfy future demands, and although the US is well ahead on renewable energy technology, its Government still refuses to join the Kyoto Agreement or create mass alternative renewable energy programs.

FACT: The world's oil reserves will start to decline after 2010. If consumption continues to increase past year 2020, and we haven't switched to more efficient technology, it'll take only 21 years to consume an amount of oil equal to all the oil consumed in the entire 20th century. See: www.hubbertpeak.com

In the last 100 years the modern technological world as we know it today has been created almost solely by the use of OIL (petroleum). Within the next 50 years the world will have exhausted its current known reserves of oil and the threat to world peace and the resultant social and political unrest will be catastrophic. Unless cheap alternative clean energy supplies are found and are developed quickly, the world we know today could abruptly end by 2050.

For a country that uses 26% of the world's daily oil production and thirsts for more, refuses to reduce carbon emissions, has the world's largest stock of WMD's, exploits poorer nations, has become the world's self-appointed 'world policeman', and can coolly condemn terrorism when 11,000 of its own people die in the USA from gunshot wounds every year, is it hardly surprising there is anti-American feeling around the World?

So, which country in the World is the most dangerous, and threatens our way of life in the future?

Is it the North Koreans? The Chinese? The Iraqi's? The Iranian's....?

I'll let you decide!