Posted on 07/02/2002 12:18:35 PM PDT by WakeUpChristian
Bush Still Opposed to Int'l Court
Tue Jul 2, 2:54 PM ET
By RON FOURNIER, AP White House Correspondent
MILWAUKEE (AP) - President Bush ( news - web sites) vowed Tuesday to keep looking for a way to resolve a dispute with U.S. allies over the world's first permanent war crimes court.
But Bush said he would not drop his opposition to the International Criminal Court.
"We'll try to work out the impasse, but the one thing we're not going to do is sign on," Bush said during a tour of a local church to promote his domestic agenda.
The administration is seeking blanket immunity from the U.N. Security Council for Americans serving in U.N.-approved peacekeeping missions.
As the tribunal was launched on Monday, the United States withdrew three U.S. military observers serving with the United Nations ( news - web sites) in East Timor ( news - web sites). But U.S. diplomats assured Europeans that the United States would not pull American peacekeepers out of Bosnia.
"Our commitment to the Bosnia mission is very strong, our desire to see this worked out in the context of the United Nations is very strong," the State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said in Washington.
And the Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said the United States would not abandon current peacekeeping operations while striving to get Americans exempted from the court's jurisdiction.
More than 100 countries celebrated the birth Monday of the International Criminal Court as a milestone for global justice and vowed not to let U.S. opposition sabotage the tribunal's mission to deter and prosecute war criminals.
The Bush administration maintains that the court would put U.S. soldiers and civilians at risk of prosecution under laws that are outside America's control, calling the court a potential violation of U.S. sovereignty.
"As the United States works to bring peace around the world our diplomats and/or soldiers can be drug into the court. That's very troubling," Bush said.
His spokesman, Ari Fleischer ( news - web sites), said aboard Air Force One that other U.S. allies have negotiated immunity for their soldiers and civilians under the court — something the United States can't do because it doesn't belong to the group.
Fleischer said it was unclear whether the United States would be able to break the logjam with its allies.
Though the dispute is jeopardizing U.S. participation in the Bosnian peacekeeping mission, Fleischer said, "The president thinks it is a vital matter of principle to protect American men and women peacekeepers ... the United States has a lot at risk."
Fleischer said it is "absolutely not" Bush's intention to use the dispute as an excuse to pull out of the peacekeeping mission.
Good grief! Try Laura Branigan and Lita Ford instead.
a Chevy Camaro (why did they kill it?) or two,
They killed it because nobody was buying it. I'll take a Vector M12 and a McLaren instead.
perhaps get a beachfront condo at Cape Hatteras,
Hurricanes and Dick Gephardt for a neighbor do NOT mix.
and maybe even a Su-30MK and flying lessons to my shopping list.
Don't forget a couple of oil refineries--one for each engine :o)
Privateering against terrorism. Of course, we ought to cut the hacker in on the deal.
Yup. "Do not bind the mouths of the kine that tread the grain."
I call em as I see them.
He is not a "Mr. Bush" ...he is a PRESIDENT BUSH. See....HE fights for us against Bubba's and lie-berman's Third Way, One world government BS.
Thank you, Mr. President.
...it is STILL sooooooooo good to be able to write, or type, or even THINK the name of A MAN...in conjunction with the word "president."
Again...GO TOM RIDGE!!!! YET ANOTHER GREAT, PA, commonsensical law to thwart the environazis!!! OK....and GO MARK SHWEIKER for the extra anti-ENVIRO WACKO LAWS we now have here in PA....which the rest of the country doesn't even acknowledge,
In a pig's eye you will! You will continue to rail against the lack of conservative "purity".
Can you name the conservativist left in the Republican party?
Why do you think JC Watts left?? He knows the system is totally corrupt.
ok i will give you 500
2) Nominated a fine slate of conservative judges
NAME just one conservative judges
3) Pulled us out of the ABM treaty with the non-existant USSR and persued a missile defense.
not fully 4) Quashed Kyoto.
Being enforced through the regulations of EPA.
5) Changed the position of the federal government to that the 2nd Amendment is about individual rights, reversing over 50 years of precedent.
will will see what happen to that one
6) Got us out of the UN Commission on Small Arms.
no
7) Stopped US dollars going to pay for abortions in Central America.
no gave more money to the U.N
8) Got us out of the ICC
not yet
9) The stem cell decision.
ok
10) Took on the Civil Rights Commission to get his appointee seated.
the U.N Civil Rights Commission is in very state now
Has he had things that have made me bang my head on the table? Certainly.
But overall, the pluses have outweighed the minuses in my ledger. But his signing McCain-Feingold remains a pretty big minus.
How do you rate President Bush's overall job performance?
Excellent - 36%
Good - 29%
Fair - 19%
Poor - 13%
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That's because this place is swelled up with all these so called "Pure Conservatives" that couldnt get one of their "Pure Conservatives" elected as dog catcher. The problem is... People like you expect to have things your way or else you slander, repeat the drivel from DU, post disrespectful pictures of the President, and whatever it takes to trash who ever doesn't live up to be a "Pure Conservative"
I would love to see just one of you give us the name of your electable candidate "Pure Conservative" so we all can vote for this phantom candidate
"When he is right, I will gve him the credit"
"H"e wmon, exacty? Right about WHAT, exactly?? And then....WHAT WILL YOU GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR??
C'om bud, it's only me....occasional worker for the Bush administration, and full time "socioanthropologist" and "journalist", as opposed to sub scientific "reporter"....gimmeee the skinny... or are you CHICKEN?????
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