Greenwash: Bush Creates World's Largest Marine Park

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President George Bush has announced that he intends to create the world's largest marine conservation area across a broad swath of the Pacific, surprising and delighting his environmentalist critics who have had little but withering criticism of the "toxic Texan" over the past five and a half years.

The marine sanctuary, tentatively named the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument, will cover 140,000 square miles, stretching from Hawaii to Midway Atoll, site of a Second World War battle between the United States and Japan. It includes small islands, atolls and many precious coral reefs. The area is home to about 14 million seabirds, including albatrosses and …