Hate to say 'I told you so ...'

The United States has "unsigned' the 1998 Rome Treaty that would put America under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court treaty that Bill Clinton signed on Dec. 31, 2000.

The Bush administration took the unprecedented step of "unsigning" an international treaty because, well, simply put, it doesn't trust the international community. Dubbed the "Rome Treaty," it puts signatory nations under the jurisdiction of the International Court at the Hague, grants ICC prosecutors extraordinary powers and grants ICC officials lifetime immunity.

The Rome Treaty would give the ICC the right to review U.S. court decisions and re-try individuals if the ICC determines decisions "were not conducted independently or impartially," or were for the purpose of "shielding the person concerned from criminal responsibility."

The ICC also does away with rights granted Americans under the Constitution, like the right to confront one's accusers, due process, trial by jury, a public and speedy trial by an impartial jury, and protection from cruel and unusual punishments. So Bush "unsigned" it.

"Glad to see this "unsigning" happen though the original "signing" should've never taken place. Bubba just throwing out political hot potatoes was all it was."

You're right about the political hot potato. X42 placed the equivalent of a political improvised explosive device every place he could.

President Bush took office in a country with an economy in recession, that was soon to experience a terrorist attack on our soil and have two wars to fight. The broader WOT introduced further complications. In addition to the customary duties of the POTUS, he has had to try to ferret out and correct this 'stuff' imposed on our country compliments of eight years of the X42 administration. Has all the 'stuff' been found? Who knows. This President has done an extraordinary job under the most difficult circumstances.

Following is a link to a Time Magazine article two days after President Bush's inauguration that quotes John Podesta in a moment of humor and boastfulness.. The article provides interesting reading, especially in retrospect.

Rolling Back Clinton James Carney and John F. Dickerson
With reporting by Ann Blackman, Sally B. Donnelly and Douglas Waller/Washington

January 22, 2001
Web posted at: 1:12 p.m. EST (1812 GMT)

Excerpt:

One morning at the nub end of Bill Clinton's presidency, Clinton chief of staff John Podesta walked into a senior staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room waving a copy of USA Today. Holding the paper aloft, Podesta read the headline out loud, "Clinton actions annoy Bush." The article detailed the new rules and Executive Orders the outgoing President was issuing in his final days, actions aimed in equal measure at locking in Clinton's legacy (in areas like environmental protection) and bedeviling his successor. "What's Bush so annoyed about?" Podesta asked with a devilish smile. "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done."

The International Criminal Court is less about justice than about weakening the United States. Most telling about the clinton signing of the Rome Treaty is the date, Dec. 31,2000. Apparently, what was not good enough for clinton is good enough for Bush.

Like the bubble economy and burgeoning terrorism, the Rome Treaty is yet another ticking time bomb that the impeached, legacy-obsessed ex-(ersatz)-president left for George W. Bush.

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The clinton time-bomb ploy is a variation on the clinton posthumous misappropriation ploy, which, for the obvious reason, is the clintons' preferred method of legacy inflation. While downward revision ("defining deviancy down") is the classic clinton m.o., (see Jefferson double-helix hoax), clinton, exposed, is arguing the obverse (see Upstaged, clinton Recycles Tired Canard, Tries New Revisionist Tack)... and now in real time; the double negative offers the illusion of a higher ground, while real time, the illusion of truth.

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