On Wednesday 29 January 2003 09:32 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >There is a clear issue here. > > > >It is international cooperation vs. unilateralism. > > > >The Bush administration has demonstrated its contempt for internationalism > > by: > >1) abrogating the ABM treaty > >2) scuttling the protocols for the biological weapons treaty > >3) ignoring the Geneva Convention > >4) rejecting the Viena convention > >5) ignoring the Kyoto accords > > I will agree with you on counts 1, 2, and 4. The other counts, I have to > disagree with you on. > > 3) When have we ignored the Geneva Conventions? Don't bring up al Quadea > either; the Geneva Conventions specifically apply to combatants in times of > war, not terrorists. > > 5) We never signed the Kyoto accords. It is our soverign right to sign or > not sign onto a treaty. Since we did not sign Kyoto, we never agreed to be > bound by it. If we're talking about global democracy I'm all for it, but > it's a two-way street. Last I checked, Germany and France rather enjoyed > being able to exercise their soverign rights by slapping us in the face. > > On that note, doesn't France still owe us like a trillion dollars from the > Lend-Lease act??? :-) Bush declared war on terrorists (although I would prefer the constitutional route) and you saay it is not a war. Afghanistan looked like war to me. (something about ducks).
Bush wasn't too kind to Cairo either. It would seem that a case could me made for topling Sharon as well. Jim Tarvid
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