Bush Wants to Pour More Gasoline on the Fire

If there is any doubt that the Neocons still control the Bush White House, Mr.Chertoff puts such fears to rest:

"International law is being used as a rhetorical weapon against us," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, a former federal appellate judge, said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative policy group.

We don't need no stinkin International law:

Chertoff said the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Guantanamo prisoner Salim Ahmed Hamdan that required the United States to treat detainees under Geneva Conventions standards showed international law's entry into the U.S. domain.

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Bush is looking for help with North Korea. But there ain't help comin. Those countries know a paper tiger when they see one:

Lobbying world leaders, President Bush sought China's support Sunday for pressuring long-defiant North Korea to prove it is serious about dismantling its nuclear weapons program.

"China is a very important nation and the United States believes strongly that by working together we can help solve problems such as North Korea and Iran," Bush said as he sat down for talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao. Like North Korea, Iran also is suspected of pursuing nuclear weapons.

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Bush wants to pour gasoline on the Palestinian conflagration:

AMERICAN proposals to strengthen Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian security forces with additional guns and fighters have alarmed other Western nations, who argue that it is tantamount to supporting one faction in a potential civil war.