{"id":962,"date":"2004-06-09T12:37:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/to_irrelevance_and_back\/"},"modified":"2004-06-09T12:37:55","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T16:37:55","slug":"to_irrelevance_and_back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/to_irrelevance_and_back\/","title":{"rendered":"To Irrelevance and Back"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Bush yesterday and the new U.N. Security Council Resolution on Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I think this is a very important moment on the – on making sure that our objective is achieved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An “important moment”? By the institution once deemed “irrelevant?” Wonders never cease.
\nReader jeff-perado (stutz[at]unlv.nevada.edu) notes how Bush’s latest U.N. stance squares with that of his base:<\/p>\n

President Bush had this to say in response to the news that the UN would by passing a security Council Resolution on the sovereignty of Iraq:<\/p>\n

“There were some who said we’d never get one.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the question is, “Who actually did say that?” Well Neocon Richard Perle said it, as did Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld. They many times talked of how irrelevant the UN had become. But here’s another source: Bush’s own Texas Republican Platform!! If you read the platform<\/a> (.pdf file) explaining the planks of their platform, you will come across this:<\/p>\n

United Nations<\/b>: The Party believes it is in the best interest of the citizens of the United States that we immediately rescind our membership in, as well as all financial and military contributions to, the United Nations.
\nWe will:
\n1) support legislation similar to “The American Sovereignty Preservation Act”, which would remove the United States entirely from the control of the UN;
\n2) demand that Congress ratify no ambiguous treaties that compromise the United States Constitution;
\n3) support immediately recall our military forces from UN initiated engagements, direct or indirect UN control, and restore them to their traditional mission of defending the liberty and freedom of the people of the United States of America;
\n4) support an amendment to the United States Constitution stating, “a treaty that conflicts with any provisions of the Constitution shall not be of any force or effect”;
\n5) urge our Texas Senators to unalterably oppose any agreement or treaty that seeks to establish an International Criminal Court (ICC), make the United States a participatory party to such a court; recognize the jurisdiction of such a court within the United States or upon any native-born or naturalized citizen of the United States; and,
\n6) demand credit for peace keeping forces provided on behalf of the UN.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At least we now know who it is that opposes Bush, it is his own party’s beliefs! The really sad thing is that the “liberal media” will never point out the clear and apparent contradictions of Bush’s statements and those of his own administration and party. . . .
\nHow long is Bush going to get a free ticket to lie and deceive the American public by the “liberal media?”
\nI am beginning to think that what they mean by liberal media” is that no one in the media bothers to check facts anymore, just accept them at face value as handed them from this administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, that platform doesn’t suggest much international cooperation.
\nSpeaking which, if you haven’t seen Kevin Drum’s summary of the Texas GOP platform<\/a>, it’s worth a look to see their stealth agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Bush yesterday and the new U.N. Security Council Resolution on Iraq: I think this is a very important moment on the – on making sure that our objective is achieved. An “important moment”? By the institution once deemed “irrelevant?” Wonders never cease. Reader jeff-perado (stutz[at]unlv.nevada.edu) notes how Bush’s latest U.N. stance squares with that […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}