Verbatim copy/paste of a Presidential Memorandum dated Monday 25 October 2010.
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
October 25, 2010Presidential Memorandum–Child Soldiers Prevention Act
Presidential Determination No. 2011-4MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE
SUBJECT: Presidential Determination with Respect to Section 404(c) of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, pursuant to section 404(c) of the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA), title IV of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110 457), I hereby determine that it is in the national interest of the United States to waive the application to Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, and Yemen of the prohibition in section 404(a) of the CSPA.
You are authorized and directed to submit this determination to the Congress, along with the accompanying memorandum of justification, and to publish it in the Federal Register.
Barack Obama.
The “accompanying memorandum of justification” has not been released to the public and/or media.
A report from The Associated Press was published on 29 October and picked up by news outlets – including Fox News – and seemingly buried.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move criticized by human rights organizations, the Obama administration has decided to exempt Yemen and three other countries that use child soldiers from U.S. penalties under the 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act.
In a memorandum to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Barack Obama said he had determined that “it is in the national interest of the United States” to waive application of the law to Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan and Yemen. He instructed Clinton to submit the decision to the Congress with a written justification for the move.
Obama’s memo, released by the White House on Monday, did not include the justification. Administration officials have said, however, that cutting off military aid to those four countries as required by the law would do more harm than good. And they have said that continuing close cooperation with them can be a more effective way of changing their practices.
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State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the countries who received the waiver deserve more time to correct their practices.
“In each of these countries we are working with the governments to stop the recruitment of child soldiers or demobilize those who may already be in the ranks,” Crowley said. “These countries have put the right policies in place but are struggling to effectively implement them. These waivers allow the United States to continue to conduct valuable training programs.”
Three days after the Presidential Memorandum, a report was issued via UNICEF on the subject of children as soldiers, making no mention of The President’s waiver.
I’ll not delve into the conclusions of The UN report, for they are employing nothing more than spending additional money for ‘sustainable programs’, as opposed to actually doing something relevant and towards ending the situation.
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There is no justification that a President Of The United States can offer for exempting from sanctions, let alone tolerating for one second as “in the national interest of The United States”, any nation or government using children as soldiers while continuing to receive any aid whatsoever from America, especially military assistance.
The action by the current President Of The United States is unacceptable on any level.
In a sane nation – what America used to be – the demand should and would be instantaneous and overwhelming for an immediate retraction of such a Presidential action and pursuit of actual situational remedy be enjoined. Failing a retraction, the demand for said President’s resignation would be the order of the day, along with the demand for the resignations of other key officials and staff members involved with something of this magnitude.
That not one official or staff member anywhere within The Executive Branch and/or The State Department has emerged in opposition to this Presidential action shows the complete and utter contempt for human decency and civility within the entire administration. Senators and House members are silent as well. The media ? Almost less than nothing.
If even one member of the current administration would publicly tender their resignation over this matter and lead the call for retraction, there would be evidence that some small measure of morals and humanity may remain within the depths of depravity of our current governmental personnel.
America has passed through a lower-than-third-world barrier previously unthinkable in our country – officially continuing financial and other support of nations who’s genocidal activities are well documented, ongoing and becoming more obvious as to the direction headed – dominance of Islam (Yemen, The Sudan and Chad).
A senior State Department official (P.J. Crowley) stating that children are being recruited as soldiers in those nations flies past all ignorance and naivety. These children are not being recruited. They are being drafted, kidnapped, stolen – sometimes with arms directed at their siblings, used if need be – and sometimes – God help us all – taken with the blessing of their families who believe in ‘ethnic cleansing’ and the enslavement of others.
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As an aside but related, Mr. P.J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary Of State, sent Iranian President Mahamoud Ahmadinejad a birthday message via Twitter.

Click on the Twitter image to enlarge.
From The US State Department website biography page for Asst. Sec. Crowley.
Philip J. Crowley
Assistant Secretary
Bureau of Public Affairs
Term of Appointment: 05/26/2009 to present.
Philip J. (P.J.) Crowley previously served as a Senior Fellow and Director of Homeland Security at the Center for American Progress.
The Center For American Progress – George Soros.
He worked directly for one of the most evil men on the planet, is now at a high level in the current administration and people expect something like that to NOT happen ?
It has taken everything within my grasp to stay within the boundaries of civil discourse on all matters within this column.
God Bless America.
Kenny Solomon
South Florida

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Thanks for posting this, Kenny
nivlem (Diary) Saturday, October 30th at 8:46AM EST (link)Are there any depths to low for this administration aspire to?
This makes me sick to think how anyone could justify this waiver. What are they gaining with this? I shudder to think about it.
Do we want Yemen's military aid cut off?
Addison (Diary) Saturday, October 30th at 9:58AM EST (link)Would a cessation of military aid to these countries — specifically Yemen, Chad and Sudan — set back our anti-terrorism operations and counter-terrorism training efforts in those countries, or is that a separate pile of money? We recently doubled aid to Yemen, and AQ also operates in Chad and Sudan (not as sure about DR of Congo). Anyway, that was my first thought on seeing the story and the countries listed.
it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses
I'm speechless! This is utterly outrageous.
Mary Beth (Diary) Saturday, October 30th at 10:41AM EST (link)“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.” ~ Ronald Reagan
"This lesson presents an overview of where, why, how, and in what conditions children are used as child soldiers."
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, October 30th at 12:20PM EST (link)Looking for follow-up article and if anybody in our nation happens to give two you-know-what’s about this ‘Presidential Memorandum’, I found the following…….
This is right from the pages of ICR2P and The UN Convention On The Rights Of The Child, The UN Small Arms Treaty, ICLEI, Cass Sunstein, William Ayers, Arne Duncan and Karl Friggin’ Marx.
In fact, the more I kept reading through and hit the numerous links and links within links, it’s coming across as a window into the fully operational end within the education system across the world for full, global acceptance, ratification and enforcement of ICR2P, The UN Convention On The Rights Of The Child – PLUS – The UN Small Arms Treaty, full implementation of all ICLEI ‘green’ mandates and much more – with everything under a one-world government, having one set of laws, one police force and one court system.
This one link below has been hiding in plain sight all along and through ‘every crook and nanny’ I’ve dug into over the years, this is the first I’ve seen an actual plan of action, along with corresponding resources and connections.
How much of this is already being forced into your children’s minds here in America ?…… and how long has it all been in place.
There’s more – still on the front page too.
That is all meant for the eyes and ears of children – young children – who are being brainwashed that their parents know nothing and are incapable of doing the proper things in raising a citizen of the world.
When/if you go through the pages and sites and documents outlining the depths of Totalitarianism, Statism and Communism contained within all this madness, you’ll understand fully why I’ve been imploring you to…….
Think ‘big picture’…… No…… Bigger…… NO…… MUCH BIGGER.
....and just in case you haven't seen any of it before......
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, October 30th at 2:49PM EST (link)Just because you and many other Americans believe The United Nations to be a worthless, entity, doesn’t mean the rest of the world does as well.
The United Nations is taken quite seriously across the planet and many countries are far-gone beholden to The UN for their very existence.
The United Nations is also the single most corrupt, anti-Freedom, anti-Rights, anti-Semitic and anti-American organization in existence.
…and America keeps feeding the monster about to burst from it’s flimsy cage and bonds……
ICR2P – The International Coalition For The Responsibility To Protect.
UNCRC – The UN Convention On The Rights Of The Child.
UNODA – The UN Small Arms Treaty.
ICLEI – Global Sustainable Development Through Local, Regional And State Governments Via Legislation And Mandates.
UNESCO – The United Nations Educational Scientific And Cultural Organization.
I Have Just One Question...
BigGator5 (Diary) Saturday, October 30th at 5:55PM EST (link)I have just one question: Why isn’t this on the front page?
If Bush had done something like this, the left would throw a screaming fit.
Educated (About The Issues Facing Us Today), Dedicated (To Making A Difference), And Highly Motivated (To Getting Things Done)

From The High Commissioner Of Human Rights --- The Human Right To Education.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Sunday, October 31st at 8:57AM EST (link)This has nothing to do with education and everything to do with Statism and acceptance of Totalitarian domination.
I’ll humbly make a suggestion: Click on the following link and read the entire page, along with the associated links there.
(All emphasis here is mine.)
I’ll not comment on the obvious.
Kenny, thanks for keeping up with this trash
tcgeol (Diary) Monday, November 1st at 2:01PM EST (link)It makes me sick to even think about the things that go on in the UN and other transnational organizations and the traitorous supporters in our own country. Thank you for your work.
Just your typical bitter gun- and God-clinger
Even the Left admits we’re Right
No thanking me needed.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Monday, November 1st at 2:23PM EST (link)The more digging done, the more dangerous it looks for freedom in the near-term, let alone the long run…… and no, I’m not exaggerating a thing in that short statement.
It’s all interconnected and the people involved are no longer hiding – they think they’ve got it in the bag.
Notice from the President on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Sudan.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Tuesday, November 2nd at 6:35AM EST (link)Lookie what’ we done gots usselfs heah…….
So what’s a little additional genocide between low friends in high places ?
There’s no corruption or anything else involved anywhere.
After all, it’s only The Religion Of
PiecesPeace showing how peaceful it is.I mean…… It’s not as if anyone’s using kids as soldi…… oh…… wait.
Jihad On Horseback --- Politically Correct Genocide In Darfur (The Sudan).
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, November 6th at 6:10PM EST (link)My friend DJ over at The Jawa Report has made my job a tad lighter and he’s run up some information on The Sudan – Home to Darfur and an ongoing genocide.
There’s a two-part video presentation entitled “Jihad On Horseback” that is…… let’s say…… ‘rather enlightening’ on the subject.
These are his words, with a ink to the Jawa page between paragraphs…..
After you view both parts of this presentation, I’d like you to pose a question to yourself……. How and why can the current President Of The United States Of America, Barack Hussein Obama, justify any support, tacit or otherwise, to the government of The Sudan ?
Then get to a phone, call The White House, or send an e-mail or fax and ask him the same question, demanding an answer……. A straight-forward “let me make this perfectly clear” short and to-the-point answer.
UN rejects call by southern Sudan for help during a secession vote.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, November 6th at 8:06PM EST (link)Convert, submit or die.
That’s the three choices of infidels under Islam….. and apparently also under those who appease it and/or turn a blind eye.
Hint: It’s not a civil war…… It’s genocide.
But is sure is okee dokee with our Jihadist At 1600™ if the Muslims use lil’ kids as troops to wipe out the southern population.
Are you even remotely starting to see just a little bit of the big picture yet ?
No ?
Once again…….
Crossroads In Turkey.
6 April 2009
An address to The Parliament Of Turkey by Barack Hussein Obama, POTUS.
Full video (25 min.) http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/04/06/crossroads-turkey
Full transcript http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-By-President-Obama-To-The-Turkish-Parliament