The administration of US President George Bush is the most frightening in the history of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams said Friday, denouncing US unilateralism.
Williams, the coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) who shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize with her organisation, said Bush’s administration was ”the scariest administration of the US history”.
”He is worse than Reagan, worse than Nixon. He sees the world in black and white,” the US activist told reporters in Oslo following the publication of a report on landmines.
Williams said she was opposed to a US attack on Iraq, which she qualified as ”a violation of international law”.
”May any country justify a military invasion by calling it a pre-emptive action?” she asked. ”It’s illegal.”
She said the US, the only western country that has not ratified an international treaty banning landmines, was as a result no better than Iraq, Iran and North Korea, the countries Bush qualified as an ”axis of evil” earlier this year. – Sapa-AFP