(APEC) Summit's agenda hijacked by Bush

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Summit's agenda hijacked by Bush

23.11.2004
By FRAN O'SULLIVAN at Apec
SANTIAGO, Chile - United States President George W. Bush again hijacked the agenda at this year's Apec summit, using it to mount a new attack on the "Axis of Evil" nations North Korea and Iran.

It was a move that the Asia-Pacific leaders acquiesced to by their silence.

Not one leader tackled the validity of the United States' Iraq invasion in their closed meetings - it was not even discussed, said New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.

Rather, the leaders chose to become an informal cheer squad to support the efforts of the second-term Bush Administration to bring the recalcitrant nuclear nations to account.

Nor was there any public questioning around Santiago over Bush's urgings for a crackdown on the aspirations of the two nations to take their place among those that could be "entrusted" to use their own nuclear weapons wisely (read here the US and China).

The hypocrisy of South Korea's own position - where it was smoked out by the International Atomic Energy Agency for moving towards a nuclear weapons programme - did not get a mention...cont'd

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1. Your link doesn't go to the article

Please re-post with direct link. This sounds like an editorial as well, so make sure it is not labeled as such.