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Article: Is Bush playing treaty "chicken"? The administration must come clean on Kyoto.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2002
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Byline: Christopher C. Horner, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
As one of the first manifestations of President George W. Bush's supposed campaign of foreign policy "unilateralism," last year he rejected, withdrew from or otherwise abandoned the Kyoto Protocol on "global warming" - right? Not exactly. That which is required to withdraw from unratified treaties was recently demonstrated regarding the Treaty of Rome. Mr. Bush formally told the United Nations that this agreement establishing a permanent international criminal court would not involve the United States, despite our having signed it (see the instrument to that effect, http://www.state.gov/ ...