Posted on 06/11/2007 9:29:54 AM PDT by processing please hold
Finally, on May 15, 2007, President Bush publicly urged the Senate to “to act favorably on U.S. accession to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea during this session of Congress.” He said that joining “will serve the national security interests of the United States, including the maritime mobility of our armed forces worldwide. It will secure U.S. sovereign rights over extensive marine areas, including the valuable natural resources they contain. Accession will promote U.S. interests in the environmental health of the oceans. And it will give the United States a seat at the table when the rights that are vital to our interests are debated and interpreted." His support, along with that of the Pentagon and State Department, as well as the Navy and Coast Guard, has created the political space to secure the support of 75 to 85 senators—far more than the 67 needed for accession.
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That will probably be the line I use when speaking to my grandchildren in the not to distant future.
Bush is using both hands now to undo our sovereignty.
How many more ways can Bush say FU to his base?
GWB is an awesome, courageous, intelligent, conservative.
NOT!
What is the problem with this treaty, and why does it enjoy such strong support in the Senate?
Give him time and he will think of many more in his final, waning hours....
-Eric
OK... now...
Are we sure that Kerry would have been worse?
Phyllis Schlafly has always been a great writer on this treaty. Check it out:
Who is in charge of the Navy?
I know what the RINOs are thinking. That we’ll be backed into a corner by the 3 magic words: “anybody but Hillary”.
Well, I’m here to tell you, I will not be cowed by those words anymore.
I will vote for, and give money to, only those politicians who I believe are truly standing up for the sovereignty of America.
If that means voting 3rd party, that’s what I’ll do.
imo, he can't.
Actually, the quotes this article uses are a little misleading. The favorable action was requested by President Bush to the Democratic leadership in the U.S. Senate for *revisions* in a proposal for ratification of the United Nation’s Law of the Sea Treaty
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1832785/posts
Bush to pressure Senate to revive U.N. sea treaty
You mean he’s used them all up?
Agreed.
“And it will give the United States a seat at the table when the rights that are vital to our interests are debated and interpreted.”
I thought the US Navy owned the dining room the table sat in. If not, we sure wasted a whole lot of money on carriers and subs.
McInsane (League of Democracies - because the existing UN doesn't destroy enough US sovereignty) and Fruity (Department of Nation Building) are the torch-bearers of Bush-style Wilsonianism. No more neofrauds!
Yes I can see it now, next time someones fishing offshore, they’ll be inspected by the Bolivian Navy - Which is patrolling it’s economic inclusion zone. But never ever mess with the Swiss Navy.
>Bush is using both hands now to undo our sovereignty.<
But he has so little time left in which to do it! Of course, another RINO is being groomed, fawned over, and glossed up in an attempt to topple the Republican candidates now running. This is being done by the same people behind Bush, for the same purpose. Soros may own the DINOcrap party, but the CFR owns the rest of ‘em. One man is not owned by any - and they’re doing their darndest to keep the one potential leader America hungers for in the dark.
Americans who want to keep their country free and prosperous must keep ever vigilant against the loss of their sovereignty more now than ever before!
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