IN A RELATED STORY : CHENEY EATS BABIES :

Bush blocks bid to save millions of lives (Geoffrey Lean, 02 June 2002, The Independent)

European governments have long suspected it. Environmentalists have long proclaimed it. But now there is clear evidence that President George Bush's environmental policy is indeed a load of crap.

For the United States is blocking an international plan to halve the number of people, two-fifths of the population of the planet, who have no sanitation. Some 2.4 billion people lack even a bucket for their wastes, and this is one of the main causes of world disease.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 14, 2002 7:54 AM