"Dave Smith" wrote in message
news:47F0EC5B.F82E8C45@sympatico.ca...
> James Silverton wrote:
>
>>
>> ??>> In other words, an American signature on an
>> international
>> ??>> agreement is meaningless because of an unwieldy
>> political
>> ??>> process which leads to an agreement not being binding.
>>
>> DS>> I'm not a U.S. citizen, however you come across as a
>> barely
>> DS>> literate anti-American ASSHOLE.
>>
>> Please watch the clipping :-) I am an American and I
>> protested
>> the knee-jerk comment.
>>
>
> That was hardly a knee jerk reaction. It was a statment of
> fact. The US
> had planned to go metric. I provided a long list of
> international
> agreements that the US had made and backed out of. I wall jerk
> my other
> knee and restate my comment that an American signature on an
> international agreement is meaningless.
Can you read? It has been explained to you how US ratification
works and how do you have any idea what "the US" intends?
--
Jim Silverton
Potomac, Maryland
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