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To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (21176)	6/13/2004 8:33:54 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81503

Nikita > I do not see any reason for USA take this "international law " into consideration when conducting its policy That's the way the Nazis felt about the Geneva Convention. That's why there was WWII. But it's not the reason you are in the US. As you told me, you were able to go to US because of the peace which Ronald Reagan made with the USSR. Message 20214913

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (21176)	6/13/2004 10:06:06 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81503

Nikita > I do not see any reason for USA take this "international law " into consideration when conducting its policy (2) This is what one of my favorite writers, Charley Reese, has to say on the subject: antiwar.com >>The biggest single problem the federal government has is its hypocrisy. It talks one way and acts another. It talks of spreading democracy while supporting dictators; it blathers about human rights while violating them; and it claims to promote the rule of law while scoffing at laws it considers inconvenient. If the basis of our foreign policy is going to be American security and American economic gains, then we ought to say so and shut up about spreading democracy and promoting human rights. Instead, we steadily destroy our credibility in the world by talking one way and acting another. We more or less invented war crimes by staging the show trials at Nuremberg, Germany, at the end of World War II. We happily hanged German and Japanese officials. Now, however, the world wants to establish a permanent international tribunal to try people for war crimes. Our reply is, "No way." Not only are we not supporting the international tribunal, but we are exacting agreements from individual countries to never offer up Americans to their jurisdiction. War crimes, applied to us, are "just politics."<<

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (21176)	6/13/2004 11:18:36 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81503

Nikita, now here's a good deal: Come from Russia with peanuts, settle in Gaza, proclaim to be very religious, make a lot of trouble, get paid to shut-up and get out -- and in five years you are a millionaire (in rands): abc.net.au >>Israel will demolish the homes of the 7,500 Jewish settlers set to be withdrawn from the Gaza Strip, a source in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office says. Exact levels of compensation for the settlers have yet to be determined but reports say the average family could receive up to $US300,000. << $300,000 US is just about R2,000,000. Not bad for someone wishing to retire in South Africa. In fact, a lot more than most SAns have -- or can even dream about.