Saturday, December 10, 2005

Bill Clinton and The UN propaganda war on the US

Is the United Nations is waging a propaganda war on the Bush Administration? Was the Montreal Climate Summit was just another stage from which to attack the United States. Look at this Agence France Press coverage of Bill Clinton's appearance:

In a show-stealing appearance rumoured to have ired the US delegation, Clinton defended the UN's Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gases that was ditched by his successor and said the switch to cleaner energy would create millions of jobs for the American economy. He pointed to an array of gloomy scientific studies published in past weeks, including evidence that carbon dioxide levels are at their highest in 650,000 years, that glaciers in the Himalayas and Arctic sea ice were melting and the warm Atlantic currents that bathe northwestern Europe were slowing down. The United States "is the worst offender" for the problem, said Clinton.

America has just four percent of the world's population, but accounts for nearly a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions.

In a shameless display of self-promotion, William Jefferson Clinton jumped at an opportunity to continue his campaign to become the World Potentate. In what has become standard operating procedure for both he and Hillary, he said that Bush was "Flat wrong" about the Kyoto Protocol but urged cooperation with the US. In an interview last week with the BBC about the Global War on HIV, he said that he disagreed with the Bush administration on abortion funding, providing condoms and abstinence only education but urged cooperation anyway.

"There's no longer any serious doubt that climate change is real, accelerating, and caused by human activities," Clinton said. The Earth, he said, was "literally a biological miracle ... it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future." Conservatives argued -- and still do -- that the move to cleaner energy sources and tougher fuel efficiency standards would cost jobs and weaken the economy, he said. In fact, cleaner technology "would strengthen, not weaken our economy," said Clinton, "... in America, there's no there's no telling how many jobs we could create."

He spelt out a long list of things that could be done, including improving energy efficiency in US power plants, cars and buildings, switching to solar, wind and biofuels and even simple initiatives for ordinary citizens, such as using high-efficiency lightbulbs.

This is what George Bush has been advocating but unlike Clinton, is not willing to surrender sovereignty of US energy policy to the UN. It has become more obvious that the US is out of step with the UN. The level of anti-Americanism is being ratcheted up on a weekly basis. The foreign press makes no effort to conceal this bias and the UN is becoming less timid about it also.
On December 9, the UN Human Rights Commissioner, Louise Arbour, held a news conference and said that the United States is making the global ban on torture a victim of its war on terror.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/12/09/2003283659

On December 5, the former UN Human Rights Commissioner, Mary Robinson, said that the Bush Administration was ambivalent about torture and not forthcoming with information about rendition flights.
http://www.helenair.com/articles/2005/12/05/top_sub/01ts20051205120.txt

On November 18, Arbour called for an international investigation into the conditions of detainees in Iraq.
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051118-121015-7654r

1 comment:

Tiger said...

It was a moral and political decision by the Bush's to "befriend" Bill Clinton. At one point "Slick Willy" was traveling along with President Bush on AF-1. This connection with Clinton was a mistake, stated by many, at the time.

The fact that Slick is a back-stabber comes as no surprise. It's also no surprise that the de-Press is all over it!

At least President Bush is trying to protect us from Kyoto ... for now ... until the winds change, once again ...