Globalist Senators Back-Stab U.S. Troops

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However, behind closed doors in the secrecy of the House-Senate conference committee set up to reconcile the differences in the House and Senate versions of the
American Servicemembers Protection ACT (ASPA), opponents of the measure are working to weaken or scuttle it.

A high-level congressional source says left-wing Democrats in the conference
committee are not just insisting on their version, which is weaker that the House counterpart. They are trying to eliminate ASPA altogether. The measure is one of many issues caught up in the huge "Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further
Recovery from the Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States, 2002.?

It is in these conference committees, out of the public limelight with no need for posturing, that a lot of wheeling and dealing takes place. A lot of "You vote to kill this thing that I don?t like and I?ll vote for a project that makes you look good back home? goes on behind those doors. And that is what is happening right now in this conference committee.

Fred Gedrich, policy analyst for Freedom Alliance, knows every move that is going on with regard to ASPA. He has been tracking the bill full time every step of the way. And he tells NewsMax that the effort to protect service personnel is in trouble
beyond the view of the public. A well-placed congressional source confirms this.

Two-Faced Democrats' 'Cute Game'

Gedrich says the Senate Democrats are playing "a cute game on this one.? Many of them joined Republicans in passing ASPA by a 75-19 margin "to make it seem they support our service men and women.? However, a small minority of supporters of the ICC "are apparently working overtime to get ASPA dropped in conference ?
where there is no record of votes.?

At the insistence of Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., the following wording was added to the Senate bill:

"Nothing in this title shall prohibit the United States from rendering assistance to international efforts to bring to justice Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosovic, Osama bin laden, or other members of the Al Quaeda, leaders of Islamic Jihad, and other
foreign nationals accused of genocide, war crimes or crimes against humanity.?

Translated, as Freedom Alliance sees it, this means "cooperation with the court.?

The ICC is widely viewed as an attempt to infringe on U.S. sovereignty and to deprive Americans of the legal protections the Constitution assures them.

Furthermore, it is noted the ICC is answerable to no one. It is seen as a potential move toward world government.

Washington Working Group on the ICC, which favors the new court, openly
applauds the effort to undermine ASPA in secret meetings, saying "it will be fortunate if the Dodd amendment is retained in conference.?

The pro-ICC forces see Democrats Sens. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii and Patrick Leahy of Vermont as pivotal in the battle. That is not reassuring to opponents of the ICC. "Leaky" Leahy?s leftism is well known. Inouye, as NewsMax has reported, was key to deleting ASPA in conference on a previous occasion. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klansman, is unpredictable.

Is Biden Fabricating Again?

Pro-ICC advocates are also urged by the Working Group to weigh in with Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Paul Sarbanes, D-Md.; John Kerry, D-Mass.; Dodd, "and particularly? (their wording) Richard Lugar, R-Ind.

NewsMax.com listed every one of the Senate and House conferees in an article July 2.

Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote a letter to the Washington Times indignantly denying the "unsubstantiated claim? by Freedom Alliance founder Oliver North that he, Sen. Biden, is a "defender? of the ICC.

Biden told the Times he had "consistently expressed reservations about the court since the Rome statute creating it was signed in 1998.?

Gedrich tells NewsMax that if the Delaware Democrat has reservations about the ICC, he has a strange way showing them. The Freedom Alliance analyst says, in fact, Biden voted in the small minority against ASPA in the Senate?s 78-21 vote (Dec. 7, 2001) and 75-19 vote (June 6, 2002).

There is a side issue in all of this which, in the view of ASPA supporters, makes the goings-on in the secret conference committee all the more important.
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[judyvillecco]

Thanks for the update. Scarey