Bush Urges Senate to Act on Law of Sea Treaty

CQ ^ | May 16, 2007 | William Scally

[3AngelaD]

President Bush urged the Senate Tuesday to act on the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea Convention during this session of Congress and won swift backing from two influential Republican senators.

Republican Sens. Richard G. Lugar of Indiana and Ted Stevens of Alaska echoed Bush’s call for ratification of the accord (Treaty Doc 103-39), which the Foreign Relations Committee approved unanimously in February 2004, under Lugar’s chairmanship.

The Bush administration supported the treaty, but the accord never reached the Senate floor due to opposition from conservatives concerned it would surrender U.S. sovereignty. Current Foreign Relations Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware said last week that the only way action would occur on the treaty this Congress would be if the administration pressed for it.

The international pact, which took effect in 1994 after ratification by 60 countries, set up a legal system to govern all uses of the oceans, including navigation, research, pollution and seabed mining...

Bush said in his statement that participation in the treaty would secure U.S. sovereign rights over extensive marine areas, including valuable natural resources...

In an “essay,” Lugar said the United States had been “a free rider” on the treaty for too long, and by embracing it could “help counter the prejudices that America is an unreliable partner or a threat to world order.”...

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

The point for me is not the Patriot Act. The fact is his ego and he is not too bright. This makes him dangerous.

And to go along with this, you touched on the following: “It’s been speculated that this is related to the fact that he’s a former alcoholic.” This is very scary, but interesting. For the sake of argument, Joe Blow becomes an alcoholic at the age of 20 or much earlier. He stops drinking at the age 40 (like Bush). When he stops drinking, he doesn’t resume his life at that chronicle age of 40. He starts at whatever age before he became an alcoholic. Therefore, not knowing at what age Bush became an alcoholic, he is still not a full adult.

So, if Joe Blow was an alcoholic for twenty years and stops drinking at 40, he goes back to age 20 and starts from there. He blew off 20 years of his development.

[Mr. Mojo]

Reagan opposed this the first time around for good reason.

Indeed he did. And Jeane Kirkpatrick testified in '04 that LOST threatened America's sovereignty not only on the high seas but in the air and outer space as well. She also testified that Reagan's rejection of LOST was based in part on its potential to encourage the proliferation of OPEC. .....which partly explains Saudi ass-kissers Bush/Cheney's support for it. The transnationalists currently infesting the WH see an opportunity to get this through now that the Dems control congress. ......just as they now see an opportunity to get an amnesty bill passed.

An often overlooked problem with the appropriately named LOST Treaty is that it would prohibit us from interdicting/boarding ocean vessels suspected carrying WMDs. .....which is of course why our enemies (read: China) are enthusiastically trying to get us on board.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Also, again, as Freeper Mr. Jeeves wrote:

“He doesn’t work for us, and would never have become President if he did. No one else will, either - ever again - the Powers That Be will never allow another Reagan anywhere near the White House.

“Bush hasn’t done too badly by the average American, considering who he is obligated to answer to.”

This is of greatest/gravest concern. The only one who worked for us was our President Reagan as Mr. Jeeves wrote. This can’t be said loudly enough.

This is why the king-makers are pushing Rudi and trying to make us think this leftist idiot is number one. He has been chosen to continue destroying our country for the king-makers’ pockets. He is not popular. Rudi and Rupert Murdock of Fox News are best of friends and Murdock will do anything to make it appear that Rudi is winning the popularity contest hoping the uneducated will believe it.

[Eastbound]

I don't understand why Bush would push this treaty, knowing it prevents the U.S. from searching vessels for WMD's in open waters? It shoots down our most effective defense in the WOT.

Makes about as much sense as keeping the borders open for visiting terrorists after declaring a world-wide war against terror.

[Kimberly GG]

“Do you recall the smirk on his daddys face when Gulf War I ended and his speech about it included “This is the New World Order”?”

Thanks....for those who haven’t seen it...here is Clinton and GHWB’s speeches which include supporting the globalists agenda for New World Order.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvEqg_UlGaA

[Non-Sequitur]

I just can't figure out why this man is so desperate to sell out his country before his term is up.

Add it all up. Immigration reform bill...law of the seas treaty...war czar...the man is in full blown legacy mode and want's to be remembered for something other than the war in Iraq.

[ChessExpert]

“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”

“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”

“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”

I’ve heard from two White House sources who claim they heard from others present in the meeting that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”

So this is hearsay two times over: I heard it from people who say they heard it from people present.

These are juicy "quotes," but I don't think they are valid.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

” These are juicy “quotes,” but I don’t think they are valid.”

OK. so you don’t think they’re valid - I think it is hereditary.....jorge jr can’t do anything much in his own right, so to please daddy he continues with Iraq and the NWO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a9Syi12RJo&mode=related&search=