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Spectre X · #26

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Originally Posted by El Blanco

Why can't we just let Sly rest in peace?

you mean he's dead?

oh well, I think that Bush is an arrogant bastard, who should be replaced by a better president and locked in the basement of a brothel, where they use him as a loveslave. Or something similar, like forcing him to listen to Shania Twain music for the rest of his life.

Protoclown · #27

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Originally Posted by The_Rorschach

"You mean we won't be able to murder children in cold blood and get away with it??"

Choke down some Ritalin would you? Do you believe this is an accurate portrayal of how modern warfare is conducted? Do you believe the the Armed Forces advocate such actions or even condone them?

No, Rorshach. I was making a point. If we're NOT doing things like murdering children in cold blood, then why the FUCK are we so worried about joining this international court system?

Baalzamon · #28

The U.S.A. has never, and will never do anything illegal? good, then join the court and prove it.

if you join, and find that all these terrible things start happening because everyone hates the U.S., then deal with it when it happens.

As it stands, all your country is doing is making it look like you've got something to hide. Maybe you do, maybe you dont, but join the court, and, as bush likes to say: "show your cards".

legalrights · #29

For the first time in the history of treaty-making a signatory unsigned a treaty. That was the United States in March 2002 when President George Bush gave the order for the U.S. to pull out of the International Criminal Court, an institution that would probably have never got off the ground if his predecessor, Bill Clinton, together with American legal experts and non-governmental human rights activists hadn't been so behind it. It seemed to many that the U.S. was shooting itself in the foot. Not only does the U.S. have a vested interest in making sure that the reach of a world institution with the legal right to detain and try war criminals is as robust as possible, but it alienated important political forces, particularly in Europe but also elsewhere, that has left a bad mark at the back of their minds. It makes for one more good reason why they don't rally to America's side in its plans for war with Iraq. The UN and the institutions and conventions it maintains or midwifes, as diverse as the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, the peacekeeping secretariat, the human rights commission, the Conventions on the Rights of the Child and on Women, don't just spring back like a rubber band after they have been stretched out of shape by Washington. They hang rather limp and are a poor replica of the bodies with high tensile strength that they could be if the U.S. were four square behind them.