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President Bush can't have it both ways on Iraq, Burch says

By Amy Gage
September 30, 2002

If President Bush brands Iraq as a criminal state because it violates international law, can he then assert that the United States need not be bound by international law in dealing with Iraq? Such arguments are "mere pretext," says Kurt Burch, an associate professor of political science at St. Olaf College.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.