The Name Of This Blog Is...

...or, perhaps should be, Doublethink Watch. This was not the original intent, but the Bush Administration is really in mid-season form right now.

Colin Powell states that North Korea, in withdrawing from the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, "has thumbed its nose at the international community. This is very regrettable."

Uh-huh. A partial listing of treaties and agreements the Bush Administration has abandoned: the ABM treaty, the Biological Weapons Convention, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Convention on the Prohibition of Landmines, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Kyoto Global Warming Accord, the International Criminal Court... The list goes on.

What You Can Do. Same as usual: expose the lies and hypocrisy to your friends and family. Write letters to the Editors in which such stories appear, write letters to the White House calling bullshit on its double-standards. Boring, boring, boring. But also absolutely necessary.

Posted by Eddie Tews at January 12, 2003 03:06 PM