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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I think many Americans have just about forgotten the UN and its dangers. Twenty-five years ago "far righties" were out distributing "Get US Out of the UN" bumper stickers and circulating petitions with that theme. Drat, I'm aging myself again.
Seems to me he's providing a good deal of ammunition. Or does saying that make me a Bush basher?
Man, you are busy.
The apple don't fall too far from the tree. Like father, like son. I'm sure that daddy trained W to swear an allegiance to the U.N. Too. I REALLY resent W using OUR tax dollars to fund any terrorist organization like the U.N. is. I would have to say that W has been one of the biggest disappoints I've had in a very long time.
Included you purely for informational purposes, which I should have made clearer obviously, and abjectly apologize for offending you.
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