Uranus in Pisces - Dolphin Beaching Came After Navy Sub Exercise

The waters off Florida are a hub of activity and it is not because of an early college Spring Break season.

Scientists have a few theories on how sonar hurts whales and dolphins, including that it ruptures their sensitive ears, or that it scares them into rising too fast to the surface to escape the loud noise, causing a kind of marine mammal version of the bends. Yet the Bush Administration and the U.S. Navy want to continue even though they are the only apparent cause of dolphin deaths following their sub sonar exercises.

For some absurd reason they think that refusing to admit they used sonar when asked about it will make people think they have not used sonar. We all know that the U.S. government's "no comment" means yes, it did what it.

This use of sonar and its subsequent killing of marine life is nothing new. The Navy has already admitted it caused such damage in January 2005.

Once again the Bush Administration and the USA is outside of the international community and thumbing its nose at it, refusing to stop using sonar.

The environment, especially the forests and the oceans, continue to take a massive beating under Republican administrations. The Pentagon has already weakened the Marine Mammal Protection Act so it can do more military work in the ocean and kill the life that naturally is found there.

What will be the consequences when so many dolphins and whales have been stranded by sonar that they are virtually extinct? I think the consequences are going to be something horrific on land that we cannot imagine.