Presidential Determination with respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008.

whitehouse.gov ^ | September 28, 2012 | Office of the Press Secretary

[YankeeReb]

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE

SUBJECT: Determination with Respect to the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008

Pursuant to section 404 of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA) (title IV, Public Law 110-457), I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive the application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect to Libya, South Sudan, and Yemen; and further determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive in part the application of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA with respect to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to allow for continued provision of International Military Education and Training funds and nonlethal Excess Defense Articles, and the issuance of licenses for direct commercial sales of U.S. origin defense articles; and I hereby waive such provisions accordingly.

You are authorized and directed to submit this determination to the Congress, along with the accompanying Memorandum of Justification, and to publish the determination in the Federal Register.

[YankeeReb]

Does anyone remember a few years ago all the fuss being made about child soldiers in places like the Congo, Libya, Sudan etc?

Now maybe I'm misreading this thing but doesn't it appear that the Regime is giving these countries a pass on using child soldiers?

I realize this story doesn't involve homosexuals, gun control and mean old gun nuts or nasty religious people trying to keep women from their God given right to free birth control, but you'd think SOMEONE in the media would have picked up on this one.

[yldstrk]

It sounds to me as though we are agreeing to train child soldiers for those countries. This is flipping sick

[originalbuckeye]

Is this the first step in the possibility for ‘child soldiers’ in our country? Remember Obama wanting a ‘civilian security force’ to rival the Military in ‘investment’? And now we have the new Fema Corps, youths 18-24 being trained to help in Fema disasters. Funded by the Fema allotment. Scary times in this country.