Hypocrisy and Double Standards

Jonathan Power writes in the Daily Times of Pakistan on the "hypocrisy about biological weapons."

Richard Butler, a former UNMOVIC inspector, does not cite "hypocrisy," but warns that "Washington is promoting 'shocking double standards' in considering taking unilateral military action to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction."

"The spectacle of the United States, armed with its weapons of mass destruction, acting without Security Council authority to invade a country in the heartland of Arabia and, if necessary, use its weapons of mass destruction to win that battle, is something that will so deeply violate any notion of fairness in this world that I strongly suspect it could set loose forces that we would deeply live to regret," says Butler.