--and it probably always will be. It was negotiated and introduced to the Senate by Clinton in '94 (like Kyoto) but instead of being voted down the LOST is just well, lost.
(from here) As of May 12, 2006, the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea and its 1994 Agreement remained pending before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
The update cited came out June 2, '06, and maybe that's what should have been used to start a new thread instead of this walk down memory lane. I like to gripe about the UN as much as the next guy, but anyone who's got their sphincters in a wad over this thing has just given themselves a dozen years of GI problems for nothing. Just MHO.
It also indicates that Condileeza Rice is behind it, along with Dick Cheney, and a number of other officers indicate that the President himself backs it...but rather coyly.
The intention is manifest...to run it through the Senate when it...or those who care about the free market aren't paying attention, or can be hornswoggled, and get it passed based on the urgings of the "unanimous" big-wigs.
You sure haven't shown it, and then you disprove it when you contend:
but anyone who's got their sphincters in a wad over this thing has just given themselves a dozen years of GI problems for nothing.
Hello, have you been paying attention...or are you too busy getting your own bowel movements to pass?
This socialist monstrosity was approved out of the Lugar-run Senate Foreign Relations Committee...unanimously. The administration is clearly trying to sneak it through. Wake up and smell the coffee. This is big time serious.