U.S. Targets Saddam Hussein

The fraud and hypocrisy of the Bush regime, already considerable, has now reached new and astonishing heights.

Last year, in the course of forcibly returning Kuwait to its rightful dictators, President Bush was in the media constantly, delivering passionate harangues on the sanctity of international borders, the inviolability of international law and the despotic and unworthy natures of those tyrannical rulers who would impose their will on another state.

Now, we find that this self-described paragon of international statesmanship has authorized the CIA to undertake covert action to weaken or topple the government of the sovereign nation of Iraq.

This type of action is of course nothing new for the United States. One might manage to leave aside the fact that Bush and Saddam were great friends up through Aug. 2, 1990, on which day the latter stepped on U.S. toes and was instantaneously transmogrified into a demon “worse than Hitler.”

One could possibly even disregard the fact that $30 million of our desperately needed tax funds have been flushed away on this harebrained adventure, a blatant violation of the United Nations Charter and international law.

However, it should give pause to even the most ardent Bush apologist that the man who self-righteously proclaimed that interference by one state in the affairs of another “will not stand” apparently fancies himself and his wealthy constituents Rulers of the World, who have no compunction about remaking it any way they see fit.

PAUL ERICKSON

San Diego