Pat Buchanan: Bush Is Putting America First By Refusing World Court

WND ^ | 7/3/02 | Pat Buchanan

[11th Earl of Mar]

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Posted: July 3, 2002
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2002 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

When the U.N. Security Council rejected America's demand for immunity for U.S. soldiers in the Bosnian peace force from arrest and prosecution by the International Criminal Court, the United States vetoed an extension of the force. Either our troops get immunity, or our troops get out.

Good for President Bush.

Once again, when the demands of globalism clashed with the call of patriotism, he put America first. Because he, not Al Gore, is in the Oval Office, America has rejected both the ICC and the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. Even on steel tariffs, where he put his free-trade ideology on the shelf to protect America's steel industry from foreign dumping, Bush exhibited a Reaganite patriotism. And the muted protests suggest that liberals recognize that the patriot card is still the ace of trumps in American politics.

While these presidential decisions produced howls from abroad of "unilateralism" and "isolationism," they are signs of U.S. resolve in the struggle between God-and-country people and the globalists who await the messiah of World Government.

And just as the decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to declare the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional tipped the hand of judicial activists, this U.N. attempt to force U.S. troops under the ICC is welcome. For now, we no longer see as through a glass darkly who the true enemies of American independence are. Their dream is to limit U.S. sovereignty and transfer control of U.S. wealth and power to a global elite that intends to rule the world in the interests not of nations, but of mankind. The institutions of that global regime are already up and operating.

The Security Council is its Senate; the General Assembly its lower house. The Supreme Court is to consist of the World Trade Organization for trade, the ICC for war crimes and the World Court for disputes between nations. The foreign aid dispensers are the African, Asian and Latin American Development banks, and the World Bank. The IMF is its Federal Reserve – and the model is the European Union.

In the last decade, World Government made mammoth strides, with "Third Way" socialists giving up their national currencies in Europe, the creation of the WTO with the backing of Newt Gingrich and Bob Dole, GOP support of new bailout billions for the IMF and Clinton's signing of America on to the ICC.

But globalist demands have now begun to clash with U.S. vital interests in ways even Republicans can understand. For the Senate to ratify Kyoto would mean a rollback of U.S. fossil-fuel emissions to the level of 1990 – i.e., a depression. And even Democrats realize that the ICC's prosecution of U.S. soldiers for war crimes means the end of the career of any politician who lets that happen.

With immigration, sovereignty is becoming the most explosive issue in Europe, and it is propelling populist parties toward power. So fearful has the European left become that it now seems hesitant to expand and deepen the EU into an all-powerful regime.

Baroness Margaret Thatcher now concedes that Enoch Powell, whose career was destroyed by his "rivers of blood" speech decrying Third World immigration, was right to have opposed Britain's entry into the EU. She seeks a British withdrawal.

The vehicle the globalists hope to ride is free trade. As the European Coal and Steel Community led to the European Economic Community to the European Community to the European Union today and Euroland tomorrow, they hope NAFTA will lead to a hemispheric free-trade zone, then a global zone with a single currency. Out of this will arise a regime that will slowly expand its power until national sovereignty is ancient history.

The issue may be decided this decade, and we Americans will make the decision. If the price of global trade is a WTO that can impose its will, if the price of the global economy is another round of IMF bailouts, if the price of being a world citizen is the surrender of sovereignty and authority to the U.N., will Americans pay it?

What exactly is the price of liberty?

The globalists have a vision of the future, and they will pursue it instinctively and incessantly. The question is: Will patriots not only block this drive to world government, but will they roll it back? Are they willing to recognize, as Baroness Thatcher has, that we are far down the road to the loss of national independence?

In this struggle, it is an advantage for true conservatives and populists that George W. Bush is not only Andover, Yale, Skull & Bones, Harvard Business and Kennebunkport, he is also Midland-Odessa.

[ex-snook]

LOL. Everyone will soon be supporting Buchanan's ideas because they are best for America.

Pat was right about
-illegal immigration,
-the bubble stock market,
-unbalanced trade is a loser for America,
-acceptance of gay practices is bad for America (too bad Catholic Church did not listen),
-and right that intervention in the foreign wars of others will bring those wars here.

Buchanan criticized Gore more than Bush. Pat also praises Bush, he never praised Gore. Pat is for America First, don't you wish everyone was?

[Pythagoras]

[b][i]>>OK, who are you and what did you do with the real Pat Buchanan?[/i][/b]

Buchanan is an American patriot who puts America first, not the Republican Party

[i][b]>>You know the one I am talking about... The one who TRIED TO ELECT Al Gore.[/i][/b]

Or the one who TOLD us Bush would sell America down the Rio Grande with amnesty for illegal aliens something which has come to pass already. At least Buchanan *sticks* to what he believes in.

[b][i]>>The one whe claimed Al Gore was better qualified to be president.[/i][/b]

At least Al Gore is honest. At least Al Gore lets you know he is not on your side.

[b][i]>>The one who claimed Bush was a globalist tool for the NWO.[/i][/b]

The Bush who has thrown away billions on worthless Great Society programs for Africa, the Bush who was for Kyoto, then he wasn’t, then he was, then he wasn’t. The Bush who supports erasing our national borders and selling American citizenship for cheap cash in order to get re-elected.

[i][b]>>Who claimed that 'there is not a dimes worth of difference between Al and George.[/i][/b]

Who was absolutely vindicated with the Bush White House and Tom Daschle held hands and joyfully worked together to legalize millions of illegal aliens.

[i][b]>>The one who referred to GW as "baby Bush."[/i][/b]

But who is honest enough to admit when Bush does something that as least good, unlike someone else we know.

[i][b]>>The one who claimed that the Buchanan voters in Palm Beach really meant to vote for Gore, implying that Gore should have been the winner in the presidential contest.[/i][/b]

LOL I am sure all those old Jews wanted to vote for Buchanan of all people.

[i][b]>>The one who claimed "victory" in Michigan because the Reform Party candidate took just enough votes from conservative Republican Spencer Abraham to give the election to pro-abortion, higher taxes, liberal Democrat Debbie Stabenow. [And thus the Democrats control the Senate and Bush's judicial nominations.][/i][/b]

Perhaps the GOP will one day learn that throwing away billions of dollars on worthless New Dealer philanthropy programs, throwing away American citizenship to illegal alien criminals while holding the hands of the democrats, and doing nothing to stop the utter cultural degeneration in the United States will eventually cost them.

[Pythagoras]

“Absolutely brilliant article summarizing the evils of a world government. There is NO benefit for the USA to become a part of this fiasco. The whole purpose of a world government is to destroy and plunder the US.”

Was that the ghost of Woodrow Wilson and FDR I just heard?

“GW has never come across as a globablist, and he is sticking to his guns on that issue. It is probably the biggest reason to support Bush. Hopefully Bush can stick to his guns on taxes and maybe one day get around to at least slowing the growth of government.”

Dubya really stuck to his guns on immigration didn’t he. Thanks Dubya for giving the thousands of illegal aliens in my area the ability to vote for Democrats who will raise my taxes.

“Does this maen Pat will replace Chenney on the 2004 ticket? I guess Willie Green will become a Bush supporter then.”

The difference between Buchanan and Dubya is that Buchanan actually puts his beliefs first, getting elected last.

“Yes, we are talking about the same man who, if listened to in 2000, would have given us President Gore”

LOL what is the difference honestly? The Republican Party is so watered down and mediocre it is ridiculous. Either way we can look forward to being a Third World Country. Some future.

“And somehow I don't buy the idea that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld hold secret meeting in the secure Situation Room below the Oval Office, listening to old Pat Buchanan speeches to see which ones they can implement.”

He sure wasn’t listening to Buchanan when he was embracing Tom Daschle and pushing amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

“George W. Bush did not change. Pat Buchanan simply changed his perspective of the man he hates.”

Buchanan gave Bush points for rejecting the World Court and Kyoto (finally), an honest assessment entirely consistent with his principles.

“Lucky for those who love America, that we voted for Bush, not Buchanan.”

Luckily for those who love America, they voted for Buchanan and not Jorge Bush, President of Mexico. I only wish I could have voted for Buchanan in the last election.

[Jethro Tull]

"You know the one I am talking about... The one who TRIED TO ELECT Al Gore."

Had 3,400 elderly Jewish voters in Palm Beach County, FL. not mistakenly voted for Buchanan, rather than Gore, Big Al certainly would be president today.

Pat thanked God for His intervention, and so should you...

[DoughtyOne]

You know what, for a lot of people who profess to think that Pat doesn't matter, it's amazing how many of them flock to every Buchanan thread. Every once in a while their boy gets it right. I guess we shouldn't remind them that Buchanan was out there a decade or more in front of them.

[afuturegovernor]

Bush has not changed. Only Pat's perception of him has. BTW, if we had listeded to Pat and voted for him, President Al Gore would be jumping into the world court with both feet.

Lucky for those who love America, that we voted for Bush, not Buchanan.

Exactly right!

[afuturegovernor]

Had 3,400 elderly Jewish voters in Palm Beach County, FL. not mistakenly voted for Buchanan, rather than Gore, Big Al certainly would be president today

Well actually, Buchanan's name was the third name on the ballot. The old stupid Florida voters were voting for the third name on the ballot...so if Buchanan had not have run, it would have moved Ralph Nader's name to the third place on the ballot. :^)

[Psycho_Bunny]

"OK, who are you and what did you do with the real Pat Buchanan? "

lol...that was exactly my first thought.

[afuturegovernor]

The difference between Buchanan and Dubya is that Buchanan actually puts his beliefs first, getting elected last.

Which is why one is the leader of the free world and the other has never been elected to anything.

[Hugin]

In this struggle, it is an advantage for true conservatives and populists that George W. Bush is not only Andover, Yale, Skull & Bones, Harvard Business and Kennebunkport, he is also Midland-Odessa.

That Pat ever thought Bush was "Andover, Yale, Skull & Bones, Harvard Business and Kennebunkport" shows how little he understood him. That was Bush 42. Bush 44 may have gone to those schools, but they are not who he is. Dubya has always been first and foremost a Midland Texas guy.

[afuturegovernor]

I only wish I could have voted for Buchanan in the last election.

That doesn't make much sense...you now want to vote for the guy who would have elected Al Gore? Take all your disagreements with Bush and multiply that by 1,000 ---that is what a Gore adminstration would have wrath.

[Magnum44]

OK, who are you and what did you do with the real Pat Buchanan?...

LOL! Well said!

[ninenot]

Pefectly obvious to me that GWB has figured out the REAL world now that he's President. Campaigning from the 'big chair' in Texas doesn't give you the same feel as dispatching troops to Afghanistan... or burying 3,000 Americans in New York City.

[afuturegovernor]

I totally agree with Bush and Buchanan on this issue; however, Buchanan reminds me so much of his hero Richard Nixon.

[ninenot]

You don't have to be a brain-surgeon to understand PJB's warnings about the 'culture war'---all you have to do is read the decisions of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (hint: look under "Pledge of Allegiance.")

But to some, PJB was just hysterical.

[Republican Wildcat]

No kidding. It's like a totally different person.

[bob808]

It's like a totally different person.

To me, Pat sounds like the same person he's always been - one who puts America first. He's one of very few people who seem to still be able to put principle above party.