GOP Platform Junked

Bush Jolts Conservatives;

Endorses U.N. Boss Annan

Minutes before President George W. Bush announced his endorsement of Kofi Annan for another term as U.N. boss, Rep. Ron Paul declared on a national radio show that he was afraid that the U.S.-U.N. relationship would get "cozier" under Bush than it had been under Clinton. He compared it to those "conservative" Republicans who had cozied up to Communist China.

Rep. Paul, Republican of Texas, noted that, under Clinton, there was congressional resistance to paying off a phony financial "debt" to the U.N. but that under Bush the Congress seems anxious to go forward with the bailout. "Now that President Bush wants it done, the Senate has gone along with it. And my guess is that the House will, too. I bet there will be only a few of us to vote against it…I think there's money owed, but I think they owe us money." A vote on paying this phony debt is scheduled in the House International Relations Committee, perhaps this week.

The bailout is going forward despite the 2000 Republican Platform's call for "all funds" contributed by the U.S. toward U.N. peacekeeping to be counted against dues to the world body. If this was done, there would be no "debt" to the U.N. and, as Rep. Paul indicated, the U.N. would owe the U.S. billions of dollars.

The platform also says "American troops must never serve under United Nations command." Yet U.N. figures currently show 888 U.S. personnel serving as U.N. observers, police and troops in U.N.-led peacekeeping operations.

In his remarks endorsing Annan, the president said the U.N. boss was doing an "excellent" job, despite his anti-American record and complicity in major humanitarian disasters such as the Rwanda genocide and the East Timor bloodbath.

"Those of us familiar with Annan's record are flabbergasted," declared Cliff Kincaid, president of America's Survival, a public policy group. "This will come back to haunt the administration, both in terms of public support for its foreign policy and its ability to further the cause of freedom in international affairs." Annan's anti-American record includes:

• Annan supports the global warming treaty; Bush does not.
• Annan supports the International Criminal Court; Bush does not
• Annan favors U.N. control of national armies; Bush does not.
• Annan favors appeasement of Saddam Hussein; Bush does not.
• Annan supports an international abortion right; Bush does not
• Annan backs the ABM treaty; Bush does not.

The problem is compounded by the selection of career State Department official John Negroponte as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Negroponte, a former aide to Colin Powell, has been praised as a "wise" choice by William Luers of the U.N. Association, the premier pro-U.N. lobby in the U.S.

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