The Rational Egoist

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9/7/2003

I Condemn President Bush [Posts] — Steve Giardina @ 1:23 pm

The Bush administration is demanding that the United Nations take “urgent action” to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapons program.

America will tomorrow demand that the United Nations takes urgent action to prevent Iran acquiring the atom bomb as fears mount that Teheran is on course to develop a nuclear weapons capability within two years.

United States officials will make the demand at a special meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna that has been arranged to consider a 10-page report by Mohammed al-Baradei, the agency’s director-general, into the state of Iran’s nuclear programme.

Washington has already expressed deep concern about the discovery of traces of weapons grade uranium found in soil samples taken from one of Iran’s top secret nuclear facilities last July.

While President Bush did retain some of his worth with his foreign policy in the past, he has now lost all worth in my eyes. When Sept. 11 occurred, our great country rallied around its leader, President Bush, who promised swift and just action against the terrorists of the world and the countries that support them. During this time, President Bush proudly declared that you are either with us, or you are with the terrorists.

Now, almost 2 years since that event, President Bush has violated his own words at almost every turn. This latest incident with Iran is yet another example out of many.

The United Nations is a thoroughly corrupt and evil organization. While an organization composed of free nations, working together for their own mutual self-interest would be quite beneficial to all involved, that is certainly NOT what The United Nations is. The United Nations is an organization comprised of a number of dictatorships and terrorist states, along with semi-free countries such as the U.S. and the U.K. The basic premise of the UN is that there is little or no distinction between a free nation, such as the US, and an evil dictatorship, such as the Soviet Union which was a member of the UN during its existence. There is no ethical or political superiority between nations, but rather, every nation is on an equal ethical and political playing field, regardless of whether or not they respect individual rights or slaughter millions.

Based on this premise of moral and political relativism, the UN advocates the idea that no one nation is capable of determining what is right or wrong for themselves, and thereby acting on that knowledge. Instead, only a consensus of many nations (whether or not they are free or dictatorships is irrelevant to them) can decide what is right or wrong. (This is what is meant by the condemnation of the U.S. acting “unilaterally” and the advocacy of “multilateral” action.)

As I have stated in many previous posts, Iran should be the #1 target for the war on terrorism. It is the heart of the Islamic fundamentalist movement, their government is an Islamic theocracy, and they are attempting to develop a nuclear weapons program (not to mention that the people of Iran are SCREAMING for the government to be overthrown). The Bush administration seems to have recognized the fact that Iran is a central target in the war on terrorism, but they are failing to deal with this threat properly.

By attempting to work with the UN to solve the problem of Iran, the Bush administration is throwing the war on terrorism down the toilet, among other things. First and foremost, Bush is handing over our war on terrorism to a corrupt organization which is comprised of a number of dictatorships and TERRORIST STATES such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya, etc (and formerly Iraq). Bush is handing over the war on terrorism to the enemies which this war is supposed to be eliminating (the governments that support Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism). Secondly, Bush is throwing away the sovereignty and security of the U.S. By working with the U.N. President Bush is essentially saying that 1. the U.S. does not have the ability, nor does any other nation, to determine what is right and what is wrong; 2. only a consensus (the UN) can determine right from wrong, 3. if you (the terrorist nations and organizations) attack the United States, eventually, we will negotiate with you.

I now fully condemn President Bush for his foreign policy for being absolutely wrong. President Bush has now clearly violated his promise to the American people to protect us from terrorism by ruthlessly eliminating terrorist organizations and those governments that support them.

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