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The Bush administration undertook some of its own disaster recovery last week by increasing U.S. aid to tsunami victims from $15 million to $350 million. Much more could, and should, be done for the health and economic development of the tsunami victims and other developing nations' populations.
The president could start with the stroke of his pen - and it wouldn't cost U.S. taxpayers a cent. All President Bush need do is to withdraw the U.S. from the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs treaty).See the full content of this document
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Saving While Aiding
Tentatively agreed to in May 2001 by 90-plus nations, including the United States, the POPs treaty is intended as a way by which the United Nations and other international bureaucrats can control the use of industria...
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