Critics decry Bush stand on treaties: ‘ “The administration has, from day one, engaged in a wholesale assault on

international treaties,” says Ivo Daalder, a National Security Council

official under President Clinton.

The moves also have sparked sharp rebukes from other nations. The Bush

administration is “practically standing alone in opposition to agreements

that were broadly reached by just about everyone else,” says Fred

Eckhard, spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

The administration’s rejection of the biological weapons draft accord

“confirms a pattern of reckless, unilateralist behavior on arms control, as

on environmental and other issues,” an editorial said Thursday in the

London newspaper The Guardian.

Bush’s new foreign policy vision “has largely amounted to trashing

existing agreements without any clear idea of what to put in their place,”

the newspaper said.’ USA Today And “A leading critic of the military’s missile

defense testing program has accused the Pentagon of trying to

silence him and intimidate his employer, the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, by investigating him for disseminating classified documents. ” New York Times