Posted on 06/22/2004 6:57:51 PM PDT by MarkMcM
As if kissing every powder-blue hiney thats paraded in front of him isn't bad enough, now it seems (according to the June 28 issue of The New American) President Bush is pushing to spend $606 million (Defense Dept dollars) to help train a UN standing army. More of our tax dollars spent on UN social elite globalists. How lovely. My disenchantment with President Bush all started with his amnesty for illegals scheme and things seem to be going downhill. I wonder... is he trying to make me not vote for him??
One of the most stunning developments to come out of the Bush administrations war on Iraq has been almost completely ignored by the media cartel. Incredibly, the Bush Defense and State Departments are jointly proposing to establish, with the apparent blessing of the White House, a 75,000-strong army of international "peacekeepers." Called the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI), this astonishing scheme calls for recruiting and training primarily Third World peacekeepers, to the tune of over $600 million over the next five years.
"...UN standing army.."
Standing and picking their overgrown noses is all they will be doing.
Why is George W. Bush doing this? Especially in light of the ongoing U.N. Oil for Food Scandal?
Who oversees the activities of the U.N.? To whom does the U.N. answer? What redress do ordinary citizens have when they have been wronged by the U.N.?
The rights of citizens of the USA come from our creator. Government has no powers other than those granted to it by the people.
From where or whom does the United Nations derive it's powers?
Interesting article. I don't see where this is any kind of "UN Standing Army". It is training foreign troops to act as peacekeepers instead of ours and focused on Africa
Is there any evidence to support the allegation you're making?
...any links, references,...?
Or is this like MND's recent nutty conspiracy lie that our President wants to force our whole population to submit to mental evaluations?
All,
I tried posting a link to the text of the bill, only to discover that THOMAS expires the search after a little while. So, here is the full text of the bill:
The Global Peacekeeping Operations Initiative Act of 2004 (Introduced in Senate)
S 2514 IS1S
108th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2514
To authorize the transfer of funds for foreign countries to participate in international peacekeeping or peace enforcement operations , and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 9, 2004
Mr. LUGAR introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations
uh, no. Hate to have to point out the obvious, but the source was the New American article. A Bush campaign worker confirmed what I asked him about the article.
Any time a UN official gets killed in a hot zone the UN pulls its troops out of harms way.
An army that is afraid to get shot at is not an army.
I suspect that you never had any intention of voting for anyone except that idiot Kerry, in the first place.
If anyone is hell bent on financing a UN Army, it is the worry wart fart, with a long face and negative attitude about everything on earth-Mrs. Heinz's Gigolo.
Get lost, troll!
"Got a bill number ? ANYONE ?"
That's a most excellent question! That's the same question I asked of a publication by the same strange little constituency herd that posted the paragraph for this thread.
It's garbage. There are a cluster of people who are angry because our President won't bring back the Spectacle or something. It's likely that they're afraid of social programs being cut during his next term, which term is going to happen with or without them.
Look, lefties, if you don't want to re-elect our President, vote for Nader. Or go ahead and write in Milosovek, Hitler, or someone like that.
The JBS is way left while pretending to be right. Everyone knows that.
"Or is this like MND's recent nutty conspiracy lie that our President wants to force our whole population to submit to mental evaluations?"
Oops! That should read as "WND's."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1157814/posts
WND is a good publication when it's not working against our efforts.
Mark, It was not obvious, that is why I asked. You referred to but did not link to the article in "New American".
Now I understand that your "source" is an obscure and little known publication that I could look up if I had sufficient motivation, and your confirmation is an unnamed campaign telemarketer. I suppose that is as good as a confirmation from a White House spokesman.
Are you from the Woodward/Bernstein school of journalism?
Mark, never apologize for pointing out the obvious.
Take a look at post #29.
Also consider the following paragraph excerpted from the Reagan "Rendezvous with Destiny" speech 1964. (Reprinted in National Review Online, June 8, 2004).
"Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, "We don't know how lucky we are." And the Cuban stopped and said, "How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to." In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves."
Again I ask, from whom does the United Nations derive it's powers?
S 2514 IS1S is an invalid bill number
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query
1 . United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Funding Act of 2003 (Introduced in House)[H.R.1196.IH]
5 . Access to Capital for Haiti's Development Act (Introduced in House)[H.R.1108.IH]
15 . Global Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2004 (Introduced in House)[H.R.4230.IH]
24 . Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005 (Reported in House)[H.R.1950.RH]
1 . The Global Peacekeeping Operations Initiative Act of 2004 (Introduced in Senate)[S.2514.IS]< ----proper BILL NUMBER
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/22/politics/22CND-HEAR.html?ex=1088049600&en=736bc65d87221492&ei=5070
5/9/2002:
Committee on Armed Services ordered to be reported an original measure.
5/15/2002:
Committee on Armed Services. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Levin. With written report No. 107-151. Additional and Minority views filed.
5/15/2002:
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 370.
5/21/2002:
Star Print ordered on the bill as reported.
6/18/2002:
Measure laid before Senate. (consideration: CR S5674-5687)
6/19/2002:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S5674-5687, S5727-5767)
6/20/2002:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S5799-5821, S5825-5835, S5836-5841)
6/21/2002:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S5881-5886, S5891-5892)
6/24/2002:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S5925-5940)
6/25/2002:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S5973-5995, S5996-5999, S6001-6008)
6/25/2002:
Cloture motion on the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S6001)
6/26/2002:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S6057-6089, S6097-6100, S6112-6121)
6/27/2002:
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S6178-6180, S6182-6200, S6203-6225)
6/27/2002:
Cloture on the bill invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 98 - 0. Record Vote Number: 164. (consideration: CR S6182-6183)
6/27/2002:
Passed Senate with amendments by Yea-Nay Vote. 97 - 2. Record Vote Number: 165. (text: CR 7/8/2002 S6363-6432)
6/27/2002:
Senate incorporated this measure in H.R. 4546 as an amendment.
6/27/2002:
See also S. 2515, S. 2516, S. 2517.
6/27/2002:
Senate ordered measure printed as passed.
7/8/2002:
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
7/8/2002 2:02pm:
Received in the House.
7/8/2002 7:17pm:
Held at the desk.
http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:SN02514:@@@X
S.2514
Title: An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2003 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
POPULAR TITLE(S):
Department of Defense, FY2003 bill (identified by CRS)
SHORT TITLE(S) AS INTRODUCED:
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003
SHORT TITLE(S) AS REPORTED TO SENATE:
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003
SHORT TITLE(S) AS PASSED SENATE:
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003
OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED:
An original bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2003 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes.
http://64.177.207.201/pages/8_40.html
Amendments to S. 2514, the Defense Authorization bill
'Troll'? There's an intelligent way of ending a post...
So then I guess forking over $606 million to the UN for their military development is OK with you? Since its not OK with me, that makes me a Kerry supporter? Your grasping. Personally, I have no intention of voting for Kerry (I would just as soon sit it out or vote Constitution Party before that ever happened).
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