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To: LindyBill who wrote (58079)	11/21/2002 11:23:24 AM
From: richardbt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Where in the world did you get the idea that the USA signed on to only using force when it had the OK of the UN? Dreamworld? We set up the UN. We certainly did not turn over our Sovereignty to it. From the fact that the US signed the UN Charter and that arts 2(3) and 2(4) and Chapters VI and VII of the charter state this clearly enough that any literate person can understand them. Obviously, of course, its would be very naive of us to assume that the US ever has any intention of actually honouring any of the commitments it assumes by treaty when it doesn't suit it to do so (after all we wouldn't want to restrict your sovereign right to blow the hell out of whomsoever you may choose) and, equally obviously, nobody's in a position to do anything much about it. I don't understand why the US can't just admit this? Why all these specious attempts to argue that it isn't bound by treaties it's clearly signed up to or that they don't mean what they clearly say?