ICC still threatens U.S. soldiers. (Insider Report).

The Bush administration's "compromise" on the International Criminal Court (ICC) leaves U.S. soldiers vulnerable to arrest and prosecution by that UN tribunal. Under the arrangement worked out between the administration and the UN Security Council, U.S. personnel deployed in peacekeeping" missions will have a one-year exemption from prosecution, which the Security Council can renew at the end of that period.

Meanwhile, the Bush administration is seeking to supplement this fragile arrangement by working out bilateral non-extradition agreements with various friendly nations. Article 98 of the ICC treaty provides for agreements under which two nations pledge not to extradite each other's citizens to stand trial before the UN court in The Hague. Thus far only Romania and Israel have signed such agreements with the United States. The European Union, which avidly supports the ICC, has admonished its members not to enter into non-extradition pacts with America. Romania, which has applied for EU membership, has insisted that its actions regarding the ICC should not raise questions about its "loyalty toward membership in ... the EU."

According to the August 13th Washington Times, State Department spokesman Philip Reeker warned that under the so-called American Service Members Protection Act, nations refusing to enter non-extradition agreements confront the loss of U.S. military assistance. However, Reeker observed, "These restrictions do not apply to assistance to NATO member countries or major non-NATO allies or others, and it also provides the president with the authority to waive these restrictions where it's in the national interests."

In other words, the "Protection" Act, like the Bush administration's compromise" with the UN Security Council, affords no genuine protection to our servicemen. The only authentic solution to this quandary, of course, is to emancipate our nation from the UN and evict the body from our shores--an approach not in favor with the globalist clique controlling the Bush administration.