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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: RON BL who wrote (245931)4/7/2002 8:47:20 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Try a different approach, please. The silly partisanship game is one I don't play. Clinton was selling us out as fast as he could. Bush has merely accelerated the process. They're both power-mad. They both need to be controlled by the wisely created forces of democracy that the Founding Fathers incorporated into the basic structure of our political institutions.

We will disagree on the World Court. I think it's a swell idea. At least it would be more open than the closed door adjudications that are going on with regards to NAFTA's Chapter 11 claims and WTO disputes, where democracy is utterly excluded from the decision-making. Now there is an aspect of world governance that we may have agreement on.

But for the U.S. to superciliously say that it is above the law, with regard to international standards of military ethics, decency and human rights is a terrible policy for this nation to embrace. If for no other reason, than because the other 95% of the humans on this planet who don't live here can see the utter hypocrisy of our claims to be nurturing democracy and human rights when every action we take is in contravention to being responsible for actually doing the same. The rest of the world is not a four year old child. We can't get away with a game of "do as I say, not as I do." It won't play in Prague, Paraguay or Pakistan.

-Ray
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