This time the controversy stems from the U.S. rejection of a proposed international plan for enforcing a 30-year ban on using germ warfare. The move is simply the latest in a string of rejections from the U.S. with regards to other international efforts meant to curb global warming and the trade of small arms.

A result of the 1972 Biological and Toxic Weapons Convention, the draft was intended to create a way to inspect sites suspected of developing biological weapons and enforce their ban without interfering with legitimate industries.

U.S. Ambassador Donald Mahley told the drafting committee assembled in Geneva that America would not be signing on as it would put "national security and confidential business information at risk."

Mahey also said that while the plan did not achieve U.S. desired goals, the administration planned to make alternative proposals of its own. Although he did not specify when such proposals would be made, the ambassador did suggest that at least one of the ideas would be "that the U.S. be exempt from all inspections, since we don't want people doing to us what we're doing to Iraq."

When asked about the hypocritical nature of the U.S. stance, Bush simply chuckled. "You liberals are something else," he chided reporters, "just because we may have been illegaly working on the researching and developments of biolastic weapons doesn't mean other peoples should. Especially if they don't like us very much. How is that being hypnocritic or whatever you said?"