The Court does claim that even if a state has not signed on to it that it can be subject to it. Them claiming something and enforcing it may be completely different.
I'm not a big GWB fan, but I'll give credit when I think it's due. He was right in telling the UN to shove it.
The group was lamenting that they could not go against Bush because the United States was not signed onto the Rome treaty.
-- The UN is told to vacant its NYC location, with the official word from the new Bush Administration being "Since the UN has repeatedly proven to be a corrupt and ineffective leftist anti-American organization, the U.S. rejects it as a sham."
-- There is a an official press conference indicting Kofi Annon not only for collaborating with terrorist oraganization, but for skimming millions from coffers. Suddenly Kofi is found as a victim of "Unfortunate and unknown circumstances."
-- John Kerry is indicted for "war crimes against humanity" and sentenced to flogging in Vietnam
-- ALL Democrats are locked up and deported as traitors and shipped to the South Pole with only Al Franken and Michael Moore books to use as "fuel"....
That's just for starters.
Shortly after starting his speech, a plane struck the tower. President-elect Kerry and thousands of innocent people were killed when the tower fell. The media immediately blamed President Bush for causing this tragedy by making the terrorists mad at us. If it weren't for his foolish invasion of Afghanistan they would have just left us alone. Now he has created a thousand more bin Ladens that it will take at least another 8 years of Democrat leadership to make peace with them again.
In a flourish of irony and the spirit of bon vivant for which the new president is widely known, Kerry gave his acceptance speech from Windows on the World, the elegant restaurant atop the World Trade Center's Tower One.
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