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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (269548)	7/2/2002 10:00:29 PM
From: robbie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Hey dumbass, Clinton & Co. cut defense spending way back...I thought even ignorant liberals knew this...Bush will get our armed forces back in shape though...

To: Skywatcher who wrote (269548)	7/2/2002 10:11:32 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Just as I read your post I wondered when the twits in the woodwork would come out and blame Clinton for our military fubars, and voila, an idiot had already posted to you. This is by turns, the most wonderful military in the world comprised of brave fighting Americans and the biggest bunch of reprobates left over from the Clinton era according to the impotent retardicans.

To: Skywatcher who wrote (269548)	7/2/2002 10:38:09 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 769667

We can bomb with impunity, without fear of reprisal or war crime prosecution: From the NY Times. The Bush administration's misguided campaign to demolish the International Criminal Court now threatens to undermine United Nations peacekeeping too, starting with Bosnia. This is remarkably petulant behavior for a country that played a decisive role in halting Bosnia's murderous ethnic conflict and helped pioneer the idea of international war crimes prosecutions at Nuremberg more than half a century ago. Washington's reckless course has isolated it from its closest allies, including Britain. The administration should accept a pragmatic compromise before the Bosnia peacekeeping mandate expires tomorrow night. Though the Bush administration has withdrawn American support for the court, the tribunal opened for business yesterday. It is authorized to prosecute cases of genocide, crimes against humanity and violation of the internationally accepted rules of war, but only when national courts fail to do so. At American insistence, these crimes are strictly defined and there are strong safeguards against overzealous or politically motivated prosecutions. Yet Washington now wants the Security Council to override the treaty to exempt Americans and citizens of other non-signatory states serving in Bosnia. The administration invokes the possibility that an American on international police or peacekeeping duty in Bosnia could be maliciously accused and hauled off for prosecution in The Hague. That ignores the fact that the international court could become involved only if Washington failed to prosecute international crimes. At Britain's suggestion, other Security Council members are willing to delay any inquiry arising from American actions in Bosnia for 12 months. That would let Washington evacuate any accused American and determine whether prosecution is warranted in American courts. Washington has threatened to veto further U.N. peacekeeping in Bosnia if other countries do not agree to violate their own treaty commitments and grant Americans blanket exemption. Several countries participating in NATO's parallel, and much larger, Bosnia peacekeeping operation threaten to pull out if the U.N.'s mandate is allowed to lapse. If Washington does not get its way on Bosnia, it intends to challenge other peacekeeping missions on the same basis. That could begin to unravel all U.N.-authorized peacekeeping, destroying a mechanism that has quieted many conflicts and spread out peace enforcement burdens that might otherwise fall on American troops alone. It is bad enough that the Bush administration is trying to undermine the International Criminal Court. It should avoid damaging international peacekeeping as well. Ole Senator Jesse Helms, recovering from open heart surgery, got out of his sickbed to oppose this in Congress. He has a very good reason. spectacle.org