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Date Posted: 16:03:56 02/03/03 Mon
Author: mvd
Subject: I see your post and raise you...
In reply to: Mt. Healthy Mountaineer 's message, "see my other remarks on Kyoto - it is apparently a common misperception" on 15:22:37 02/03/03 Mon



1. The aforementioned ABM treaty.

2. The United States in 2000 submitted reports on its compliance with two international human rights treaties-the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment-to the respective treaty monitoring bodies. Both reports acknowledged significant abuses of the rights affirmed in those treaties.

3. Not a broken one, but...

Mr. Bush disavowed a claim made by President Clinton that the United States would comply by 2006 to the Land Mine Treaty (banning land mines) which was signed in Ottawa in December 1997 by 122 nations.

4. Another interesting tidbit:

In April, the United States failed to be reelected to the UN Human Rights Commission.

5. By November, the Bush administration's disdain for humanity became obvious when it forced a vote in the UN Committee on Disarmament and Security to demonstrate its opposition to the Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty. This Treaty was signed by 164 nations and ratified by 89, including France, Great Britain and Russia. Continuing on in December, the US Senate again added an amendment to a military appropriation bill that would keep US military personnel from obeying the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Treaty, which would be to set up in The Hague to try political leaders and military personnel charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The ICC was signed in Rome in 1998 and approved by 120 countries, with seven opposed (including the US).

6. More than two years after the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect, making available billions of dollars for toxic cleanup along the border with Mexico, not one environmental project has been launched with those funds, according to U.S. and Mexican officials.

Anyway, US "ruthlessness" goes on, and there are more instances of breaking its word than I can list here. Finally, let me add:

"Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last." ~ Charles de Gaulle

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