Letter: U.S. should get out of the U.N.

Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005 | 8 a.m.

The 2005 World Summit Outcomes document stipulates for the United Nations to call up troops from national armies for the policing component of U.N. peacekeeping missions.

I think that the real concern for the American people should be that President George W. Bush already has gone even further in pushing for a world army and police force than did the U.N. in this document. The Bush administration publicly proposed the creation of an immense U.N. military force in April 2004. The Bush proposal, named the Global Peace Operations Initiative, pledged some $600 million -- mostly from the cash-strapped U.S. Defense budget -- to train and equip roughly 75,000 foreign military personnel in peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations over five years.

In other words, our own president is on record in favor of stripping resources from our own military in order to use them to build a military force for the United Nations, an organization composed largely of regimes run by terrorists, criminals, deadbeats and dictators who despise us.

What I think we should do instead is to get our congress-persons to support H.R. 1146, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2005, which will get the United States out of the U.N.

Frank M. Pelteson

Las Vegas