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Actually, I have no doubt as to what the UN's goal is. My confusion is to what side Bush comes down on those goals.

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He and Condi and many others agreed with the L.O.S.T. I think condi's support of it helped win her over at her hearings. IIRC, she even mentioned it, sorta like a secret code maybe. I could see no other reason for the subject to be brought up there.

In her recent confirmation hearing for secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice was asked by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar if the administration favors ratification of the Law of the Sea Treaty. The president, Miss Rice said, "would certainly like to see it pass as soon as possible ... and we very much want to see it go into force."

Back into your schizophrenic mode. Got room for one more?