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Aah, thank god for like-minded individuals...
The United States is now our foremost enemy. We must begin to treat it as such.
There is something almost comical about the prospect of George Bush waging war on another nation because that nation has defied international law.
Since Mr Bush came to office, the United States government has torn up more international treaties and disregarded more UN conventions than the rest of the world has done in twenty years.
It has scuppered the biological weapons convention, while experimenting, illegally, with biological weapons of its own.
It has refused to grant chemical weapons inspectors full access to its laboratories, and destroyed attempts to launch chemical inspections in Iraq.
It has ripped up the anti-ballistic missile treaty, and appears to be ready to violate the nuclear test ban treaty.
It has permitted CIA hit squads to recommence covert operations of the kind which included, in the past, the assassination of foreign heads of state.
It has sabotaged the small arms treaty, undermined the international criminal court, refused to sign the climate change protocol and, last month, sought to immobilise the international convention on torture, so that it could keep foreign observers out of its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay.
Even its preparedness to go to war with Iraq without a mandate from the UN Security Council is a defiance of international law far graver than Saddam Hussein's non-compliance with UN weapons inspectors.
George Monbiot, writing in The Guardian 6th August 2002
The United States is now our foremost enemy. We must begin to treat it as such.
There is something almost comical about the prospect of George Bush waging war on another nation because that nation has defied international law.
Since Mr Bush came to office, the United States government has torn up more international treaties and disregarded more UN conventions than the rest of the world has done in twenty years.
It has scuppered the biological weapons convention, while experimenting, illegally, with biological weapons of its own.
It has refused to grant chemical weapons inspectors full access to its laboratories, and destroyed attempts to launch chemical inspections in Iraq.
It has ripped up the anti-ballistic missile treaty, and appears to be ready to violate the nuclear test ban treaty.
It has permitted CIA hit squads to recommence covert operations of the kind which included, in the past, the assassination of foreign heads of state.
It has sabotaged the small arms treaty, undermined the international criminal court, refused to sign the climate change protocol and, last month, sought to immobilise the international convention on torture, so that it could keep foreign observers out of its prison camp in Guantanamo Bay.
Even its preparedness to go to war with Iraq without a mandate from the UN Security Council is a defiance of international law far graver than Saddam Hussein's non-compliance with UN weapons inspectors.
George Monbiot, writing in The Guardian 6th August 2002
