Posted on 10/11/2005 11:08:04 AM PDT by Mike Bates
By any reasonable standard, the Bush policy on the U.N. should be more controversial than the Harriet Miers nomination to the Supreme Court. The President, who is depicted by the media as a unilateralist in foreign policy, is presiding over an unprecedented expansion of U.N. power on the world stage. Despite U.N. scandals and corruption, his administration spends more money on international organizations year after year. And global taxes for the U.N. may be on the horizon.
One might think that a President who went to war in Iraq without U.N. approval and appointed the tenacious John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador would have a strong anti-U.N. foreign policy. But the truth is something else entirely. In fact, in violation of a Bush campaign promise, the Bush administration is assigning U.S. troops to perform on U.N. missions under foreign command.
With the President's campaign promise on judges under scrutiny, it's worth remembering that Bush also promised when he ran for office that he would "never" place U.S. troops under U.N. command. He made that declaration during a November 19, 1999, speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.
The promise was prompted, in part, by the controversy over President Clinton's secret Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 25, forcing U.S. soldiers to wear U.N. uniforms and report to foreign U.N. commanders. This policy resulted in the court-martial and discharge of Army soldier Michael New, who refused to follow this illegal and unconstitutional order. New said he had signed up for the green team, not the blue team. His "crime" was patriotism.
The 2000 Republican Party platform declared, "The United Nations was not designed to summon or lead armies in the field and, as a matter of U.S. sovereignty, American troops must never serve under United Nations command."
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"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter
to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance." - President George H.W. Bush, speech before the UN, February 1, 1992.
wunnerful...................
Damn! This makes me want to spit in somebody's eyeball. With all the uglies occurring with the UN, W is breaking another campaign promise. Sheesh!
"We were led to believe by news accounts that Bolton, though on the job for just a few weeks, was demanding all kinds of changes in the World Summit document. In the end, however, the document was so radical that it endorsed "reproductive health," a euphemism for abortion rights, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty that justifies U.N. interference in the raising of children. The U.S. later issued a reservation to the document saying it did not agree that reproductive health meant abortion rights. But no statement was issued disavowing the children's rights treaty, a favorite cause of Hillary Clinton."
"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter
to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance." - President George H.W. Bush, speech before the UN, February 1, 1992.
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And when you go back and read GWBs comments (public) when the "vigilantes" (AMERICAN PATRIOTS) began doing the Fed's job for them, you see right where the problem lies. The Bush Internationist Dynasty.
That is just scary.
North American Community.
New has been courtmartialed to set an example for the rest of our troops that this same thing will happen to them IF they refuse to wear UN colors. A couple of weeks ago, I got an e-mail update from his dad, and he's filed another appeal. They are NEVER going to stand behind the Constitution and restore Michael to his position in the service.
But yet:
In violation of a Bush campaign promise, the Bush administration is assigning U.S. troops to perform on U.N. missions under foreign command.
Who's really calling the shots here?:
"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance." -
President George H.W. Bush, speech before the UN, February 1, 1992.
You all are a piece of work in your almost pathological mistrust of everything and everybody.
With friends like you, who needs enemies.
Thanks for the penetrating analysis. Actually, I was expecting to see more posts like yours.
Skimmed through some of your recent posts and found you critical of Mark Levin, Robert Bork, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Rush, David Frum, Pat Buchanan, Bill Kristol and Phyllis Schlafley.
And that was just today. So many "far righties," so little time.
A "read my lips" moment.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I don't mistrust everybody. I do mistrust politicians who change their positions to match what their audience of the moment wants to hear.
"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance." - President George H.W. Bush, speech before the UN, February 1, 1992.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." - President George H.W. Bush, oath of office, January 20, 1989.
I see a conflict. Don't you?
Be interesting to see if any of those UN missions occur on US soil.
The only thing that changed is the middle initial.
Damn, I was hoping that we finally had a President that understood the danger the UN poses to this country.
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