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President Bush tells base to "get LOST"
Center for Security Policy ^ | May 10, 2007 | CSP Decision Brief

Posted on 05/13/2007 9:59:47 AM PDT by upchuck

The Law of the Sea Treaty will impede the U.S.'s ability to defend its interests in time of war.
President Bush is expected shortly to announce his determination to secure the early ratification of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, better known as the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).  This treaty, which was rejected by President Ronald Reagan and bottled up by the Republican Senate in the last Congress, promises further to weaken the President's already plummeting support among his political base, on and off of Capitol Hill.

LOST has long been the crown-jewel of a community known as the transnational progressives ("transies") found in various quarters of this and foreign governments, international bureaucrats and non-governmental organizations.   The transies seek to have supranational institutions govern world affairs, circumscribing the freedom of action and undermining the sovereignty of the American people and those of other freedom-loving nations.  

The Bush Administration's strong enthusiasm for subjecting this country to such an accord compounds concerns about its penchant for other Transie initiatives, including the North American Union/Security and Prosperity Partnership (NAU/SPP) now being stealthily negotiated between U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials and interest groups.

A Bill of Particulars

Among the problems inherent with the Law of the Sea Treaty are the following:

The Bottom Line

One would think that the last thing President Bush needs at the moment is to alienate those who have stood beside him – through thick and thin – as he has striven to do the hard things needed to protect the security and (to a lesser extent) the sovereignty of the United States.  He is unlikely to get much credit from the transnational progressives, who detest him, for this concession to their agenda.  His embrace of that agenda, however, puts at grave risk the support the Administration could otherwise expect, and will certainly need, from those who have admired him and oppose what the transies have in mind for America.


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To: n-tres-ted
but it is not right to attack personally a great president.

Attack? ATTACK?

Funny, I don't recall attacking President Bush.

Please enlighten me by posting a link to my "attack."

101 posted on 05/13/2007 12:48:20 PM PDT by upchuck (Who will support Fred Thompson? Anyone who enjoys a dose of common sense not wrapped in doublespeak.)
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102 posted on 05/13/2007 1:07:23 PM PDT by Coleus (I Support Research using the Ethical, Effective and Moral use of stem cells: non-embryonic "adult")
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To: All

An article here on FR a few months ago said that Bush, at best, would be as ineffective as Gerald Ford, and at worse, another Jimmy Carter.

It has come to pass Bush is the Republican’s Jimmy Carter and much worse I might add.

Jimmy had only 4 years to do harm. And a lot of harm he did.

The coconut head traitorous moron has had almost 7 years to wreck this country with 19 long months to go. After all, Bush said, the Constitution is just “a Goddamn piece of Paper.”


103 posted on 05/13/2007 1:23:58 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: upchuck

We’ve LOST.


104 posted on 05/13/2007 2:18:20 PM PDT by NonValueAdded
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To: NonValueAdded

“We’ve LOST.”

I think so too, unless there is a miracle out there somewhere.

Look at the bright side. Maybe he will go hunting with Cheney.


105 posted on 05/13/2007 2:27:47 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: upchuck
I would guess the next question could be: who will enforce the new world order, as applied to the seas, The UK, just downsized the navy...the Russian navy is finished....IMHO, another farce, similar to Kyoto
106 posted on 05/13/2007 2:29:56 PM PDT by thinking
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To: dragnet2
and before I got to the next two words she said the exact same thing

!!!

Well, I guess it's not surprising. It's even more obvious than I thought...

107 posted on 05/13/2007 2:46:30 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: thinking
IMHO, another farce, similar to Kyoto

I pray you are correct.

108 posted on 05/13/2007 2:50:08 PM PDT by upchuck (Who will support Fred Thompson? Anyone who enjoys a dose of common sense not wrapped in doublespeak.)
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To: thinking

Bush has proposed a thousand ship navy, which would merge our navy with the navies of other countries like India.


109 posted on 05/13/2007 3:07:43 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer (I'm a billionaire! Thanks WTO and the "free trade" system!--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: All
Is there a FR ping list for the totally anti-free trade, anti-anything foreign Isolationist Crowd?

If not, I think it would be worth starting because it would be mighty popular!

110 posted on 05/13/2007 3:09:04 PM PDT by Tinian
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To: upchuck

You can thank the rest of the republican party officials as well as the President. They had 8 years to bring this up in the Senate and vote it down, but they didn’t. Funny how that never seems to happen isn’t it?


111 posted on 05/13/2007 3:14:07 PM PDT by zeugma (MS Vista has detected your mouse has moved, Cancel or Allow?)
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To: Tinian
If not, I think it would be worth starting because it would be mighty popular!

Sounds good, why don't you start one up and please put me on it. As long as there's politicians in high offices who prefer to hand over the candy store of America to every failed third world banana republic led by delusional generalissimos and other assorted loonies then I think we need to stay informed.

112 posted on 05/13/2007 3:36:14 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: Tinian

“Is there a FR ping list for the totally anti-free trade, anti-anything foreign Isolationist Crowd? If not, I think it would be worth starting because it would be mighty popular!”

I’m in.


113 posted on 05/13/2007 3:47:48 PM PDT by Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: AuntB

KOFI ANNAN has retired with all of that food for oil money.


114 posted on 05/13/2007 4:10:19 PM PDT by Major_Risktaker (Global Warming is a cover story for Peak Oil.)
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To: izzatzo

Jeb may do it the same?? It would be with alacrity
and you can bet on it....JK


115 posted on 05/13/2007 4:43:36 PM PDT by sanjacjake
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To: n-tres-ted

I agree with you that it would be wrong to launch personal attacks against a great president. However, HERE we are discussing George W. Bush and his Unconstitutional antics.


116 posted on 05/13/2007 6:54:12 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: sanjacjake

>>>One gets what one deserves..the saddest part of this
disappointment is that the one, really, great Bush
guy getting the short end of the stick..is JEB.

True, and great analysis. But after these actions of no borders and supporting global government, there should be no more Bushes in the White House — no matter how good Jeb might be. I think this realization is what made Bush I cry in public with his son Jeb at his side.

These actions also should pop the air out of the argument to vote for the “least bad” candidate. Bush II was the least bad, and look what it did to our borders and national spending. He’s ruining the GOP.


117 posted on 05/13/2007 7:00:58 PM PDT by Hop A Long Cassidy
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To: Paperdoll
SO NO MORE VOTING FOR THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS.

      Congratulations.  The lesser of two evils is still, after all, evil.

118 posted on 05/13/2007 8:16:31 PM PDT by Celtman (It's never right to do wrong to do right.)
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To: upchuck
No offense taken. I’m certainly not an elitist, globalist tool. I can barely spell that. LOL!

Spell check is my secret spelling assistant............

119 posted on 05/14/2007 3:05:33 AM PDT by WhiteGuy (GOP Congress - 16,000 earmarks costing US $50 billion in 2006 - PAUL2008)
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To: zeugma
They had 8 years to bring this up in the Senate and vote it down, but they didn’t. Funny how that never seems to happen isn’t it?

Thank you for stating the obvious.

120 posted on 05/14/2007 3:19:36 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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