Responded to the 9/11 attacks only with military violence instead of cooperating with other countries to analyze and deal with the root causes of the terrorism.  Took on worldwide terrorism instead of focusing on Al Qaeda.  Immediately attacked Afghanistan.
	·        Exploited US citizen’s fear of terrorism to advance long-held plans for military conquest of other nations, using plans already in place for a pre-emptive attack on Iraq.  Cut short UN inspections and used discredited and ambiguous intelligence as justification for invading Iraq.
	·        Alienated our former friends and allies and disregarded the outpouring of worldwide disapproval of our unilateral attack.  Criticized France and Germany and impugned their motives and integrity after they democratically voted for a position different from that of the US in the UN Security Council.
	·        Acted unilaterally, belittling and ignoring the past and current roles, influence, and world-wide services of the UN, the System of Specialized Agencies, and innumerable affiliates and non-governmental agencies with valuable knowledge of the Middle East.
	·        Failed to anticipate and plan for the aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, in both of which the US still has no exit plan and faces continuing quagmires with extraordinary costs in lives and money.  Actually, Bush has no intention of ever leaving Iraq
	·        Has awarded nearly $2 billion from Iraqi oil revenues to American companies for reconstruction in Iraq although work by Iraqi contractors would cost a tenth as much and be more in keeping with Iraqi needs and preferences, as well as providing employment for many of the nearly 2 million out-of-work Iraqis.
	·        In Iraq are violating the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibiting an occupying country from making permanent changes in the country occupied. The US is privatizing the centralized Iraqi economy, selling Iraqi assets to foreigners, and planning a form of government new to Iraq, modeled on our own.

	·        Have depended on contractors for military support services, including even interrogation of prisoners, and have assumed that the US was not bound to follow the Geneva Conventions regarding treatment of prisoners, who were given a new label, “enemy combatants.”  This has led to terrible, widely publicized, humiliating treatment of prisoners in Saddam Hussein’s own infamous prison, Abu Ghraib – for which US authorities have still failed to acknowledge their own responsibility.  The US had redefined "torture," and officials had known about the abuses six months before the graphic photographs were made public.
	·        Have imprisoned 600 foreign “enemy combatants” in a prison at Guantanamo, Cuba - some for give years  now – without any legal recourse until the Supreme Court finally ordered that they be given status hearings.  Now, in June 2007, some are to have military tribunals, though the Supreme Court has declared that such tribunals are not adequate.
	Have created secret prisons abroad and are still carrying out kidnappings and rendition of suspects to countries where torture is known to occur.
	Abrogated the Antiballistic Missile Treaty and even before 9/11 began   plans for an exorbitantly expensive missile defense system despite unproven workability.  Is now proposing an installation in Poland or Czechoslovakia that Russia sees as a threat.
	Failed even to reiterate commitment to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty at most recent five-year conference  and is planning renovation of current arsenal and crossing the traditional divide between conventional and nuclear weapons by planning for new, small, "usable" nuclear weapons, with no promise of no first use. So far, Congress has not granted funding.

 

	·        Withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, expressing no concern about global warming or about the damage this withdrawal did to the work of this Protocol and to worldwide relationships developed over many decades - formerly often with US leadership. Meanwhile, the US continues an energy policy that creates more pollution and global warming, while disregarding predictions of severe disruption from climate change.
	Refused to sign the Rome Treaty establishing the new International Criminal Court designed to deal with individual criminals like Saddam Hussein.   Has pressed other countries to renounce the treaty and take no part in it, and demands special exemptions for US citizens from prosecution for which other nations would be liable.
	·        Announced that it will not join the treaty banning land mines despite Clinton’s earlier promise that the US would do so in 2006. All our NATO allies have joined the treaty.  Has not joined efforts by 70 countries so far to ban cluster bombs
	·        Again used large quantities of depleted uranium in the Iraq war (because it is so effective at piercing the metal of tanks) despite clear evidence of its disastrous health effects in the “Gulf War Syndrome” that affects over half of our earlier veterans, as well as reports of birth defects and other serious health problems among Iraqis where it was used in the first Gulf War.
	·        Promised a 5-year contribution of $15 billion to fight Aids in Africa, which turned out to be mostly a redirection of already committed funds to US programs dependent on promoting abstinence and providing no other form of family planning help, rather than collaborative work with existing, ongoing more comprehensive programs of international and national agencies to combat aids.
	Loudly condemned Iraq’s failure to follow resolutions of the UN Security Council but disregarded over 50 such failures by Israel.  Has consistently vetoed resolutions criticizing Israel and deplored the recent ruling of the International Court of Justice against Israel’s current building of a 400-mile, 8-meter-high wall on Palestinian land dividing villages, separating Palestinians for their farms, and imprisoning them in open-air enclaves.

     ·        After working with 143 other countries to help poor nations  buy cheaper medicines to fight aids, TB, and other diseases, killed the agreement in Dec. 2002 following intense lobbying from pharmaceutical companies.