You don't suppose the principal reason President Bush named Bonkers Bolton to be our Ambassador to the United Nations – even though the Senate declined to confirm him – was so Bolton could claim "diplomatic immunity" when the Feds come to arrest...
Media Sycophant Jailbird?
Neo-crazy media sycophant Judith Miller of the New York Times, an "embedded" reporter in Bush's war of aggression against Iraq – and in the subsequent futile hunt for the weapons of mass destruction she had frequently reported Saddam Hussein had –...
No Stinking Badges
According to neo-crazy media sycophants at the New York Times and elsewhere, the Bush-Cheney administration is currently engaged in the six-party talks "aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons programs" and is "supporting" European Union...
Emasculating Nonproliferation
Perhaps President Bush had decided even before taking office to replace the existing nuke-proliferation-prevention regime – largely our creation – because the regime no longer automatically did our bidding. In particular, when the Security Council discovered...
Tearing Up the NPT
Well, that tears it. Or, rather, tears it up. President Bush effectively tore up the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons by announcing this week that "as a responsible state with advanced nuclear technology, India should acquire the same benefits and...
Getting Serious About a No-Nuke Korea
While in Beijing two weeks ago, Condi told her media sycophants that she and President Bush "have no intention to invade or attack North Korea." Furthermore, "we look forward to making progress in the six-party talks because we must all be dedicated to...
US Proliferation Rhetoric and Reality
Last year, President Bush made a number of proposals to "strengthen" the existing weapons of mass destruction proliferation-prevention regime. He proposed expanding his Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) to interdict what he deems to be illicit...
Condi Kills an EU-Iranian Agreement
Even after years of go-anywhere, see-anything inspections, Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, continues to report to the IAEA Board of Governors that he can find no indication that Iran now has, ever had, or intends to have...
CondiPerfidy
There are two possibilities. Either Secretary Rice is remarkably misinformed about – among other things – the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency in verifying that the nuclear programs of parties to the Treaty on Nonproliferation of Nuclear...
Defining Proliferation Downward
President Bush will no doubt have UN Ambassador John Bolton – once ensconced – demand the Security Council endorse the implementation of his Proliferation Security Initiative. That is, demand the Security Council endorse the use of (1) economic sanctions;...