'This Guy's Just Showing Up to Collect His Check'

Some mighty fine company Al Gore and his merry band of Global Warmers find themselves in.

Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe turned the UN climate-change summit in Copenhagen into a farce yesterday, laughing off the travel sanctions of Western governments and throwing the harsh disapproval of his Danish hosts back in their faces.

Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said his government had no choice but to allow Mugabe to attend the conference, just as New York City or the United States have no choice when horrible heads of state attend UN meetings in Manhattan.

"That is the spirit of the UN -- that the world needs a place where we can meet with those we basically don't like," Rasmussen explained to reporters who had inquired about Mugabe's attendance. "And I guess that is how you can characterize the person you're asking about."

But the real reason for Mugabe's trip is that it's his only chance to go shopping in Europe while he's under an international travel ban, said Stanford Mukasa, a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania who has studied Zimbabwe and Mugabe.

"Mugabe has nothing to offer to the climate-control conference because he is one of the guilty parties by his deliberate policies at home," Mukasa said.

And even as Mugabe thumbed his nose at the world, the host country welcomed him.

"I see no problem in greeting him," Rasmussen said, but added: "Nobody can be in doubt about my attitude toward Zimbabwe and Mugabe."

Mugabe is banned by the European Union from traveling to member states, including Denmark, as part of sanctions intended to pressure him to into allowing political reforms and improving the African nation's awful human-rights record.

Mugabe's attendance had many critics saying the global environmental summit stands revealed as a farce.

"This finally exposes what this whole conference is about," said a senior Republican aide on Capitol Hill.

"Thank God Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot didn't figure out they could fund their dictatorships with this global-warming hoax," the aide said. "This guy's just showing up to collect his check."

Oh, and by the way, your helping write that check.

Change!

Say what you will about Mugabe, but he's at least in the open about his evil. The rest of the global warming hoaxers, especially Gore, instead hide behind children and scare tactics as a means of emptying your wallet.