“President Bush says that the cooperation of other nations, particularly our allies, is critical to the war on terror. And he's right. And everyone in this room knows he's right. Yet this administration consistently runs roughshod over the interests of those nations on a broad range of issues -- from climate change, climate control, to the International Court of Justice, to the role of the United Nations, to trade, and, of course, to the rebuilding Iraq itself. And by acting without international sanction in Iraq, the administration has, in effect, invited other nations to invoke the same precedent in the future, to attack their adversaries or even to develop nuclear, biological or chemical weapons just to deter such an attack.” (John Kerry)
http://www.cfr.org/publication.html?id=6576
Be not deceived for the lovable Royal parrot reiterated it for you and corrected what International Court Lurch actually meant to reference:
“The president had an amazing opportunity to bring the country together under his slogan of compassionate conservatism and to unite the world in the struggle against terror.
Instead, he and his congressional allies made a very different choice. They chose to use that moment of unity to try to push the country too far to the right and to walk away from our allies, not only in attacking Iraq before the weapons inspectors had finished their work, but in withdrawing American support for the climate change treaty, and for the international court on war criminals, and for the anti-ballistic missile treaty and from the nuclear test ban treaty.” (Bill Clinton)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/...on.transcript/
Having voted for Max Cleland as Secretary of State (a job he was good at), I am far from a diehard, but how in the hell could I be against the Democrat’s ICC support way back when, when the Rome Treaty didn’t even mention the Supreme Court, and therefore was undeniably treasonous to the July 4, 1776 principle of “the consent of the governed,“ and be for this deal with the ports?
Impossible.
There are simply some manufactures, and management, and defense of our Constitution (consent of the governed), that we simply can’t continue to abandon to foreigners.
If the Canadians want to come in and manage our coal mines, fine, but this port thing is NUTS!
Hillary just got elected President, the vote is a mere formality now.
