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To: redfish who wrote (151353)	11/10/2004 7:45:10 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

According to the US Constitution, any treaty provision can be overridden by simple statute. Thus, the US preserves its sovereignty against all international law claims. To renounce sovereignty would entail amendment of the Constitution, which is not likely to happen soon. Thus, we never could have bound ourselves to the UN charter, as a matter of US law, and renounced our right to determine our own security needs. We are not putting ourselves in the hands of a corrupt international body dominated by dictatorial kleptocracies. We did our best as a matter of diplomacy to make a case based on the UN resolutions, but we reserve the right to do what we think fit. Even Kerry said that if there were a conflict between national security and the UN, he would be in favor of bucking the UN.........