Trent Lott Lobbies for Treaty He Opposed as Senator

"If you want a UN on steroids, you want the Law of the Sea Treaty," then-Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.) declared in a 2007 news conference. The treaty, Lott explained, "undermines U.S. sovereignty," "would create a huge UN bureaucracy" to rule the U.S. private sector and military, "would undermine U.S. military and intelligence operations," and "would be a huge problem in terms of navigational rights." Five years later, however, the man who once claimed that Senate ratification of LOST would "cede our national sovereignty — both militarily and economically," is lobbying that very body to approve the treaty.

webmaster@jbs.org (Michael Tennant) 16 May, 2012

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Source: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/11399-trent-lott-lobbies-for-treaty-he-opposed-as-senator
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