The Chimperor Has No Cred

President Bush spoke at the UN on Tuesday and condemned the brutal crackdown in Burma. It is indeed good to see him do that.

Problem is, though, that George Bush championing human rights is like Jeffrey Dahmer advocating vegetarianism. The Bush Administration has also championed secret arrests, secret prisons, detentions without trial, wars of aggression and the use of torture. Then we can get into lower-level violations of human rights, such as warrantless wiretapping, warrantless searches, mass arrests, suppression of free speech, and domestic spying.

And you can be damn sure that, as he spoke in front of the UN General Assembly, at least 95 percent of the audience was aware of all that.

Sadly, he has no credibility.