The Libertarian Party has picked their nominee for the 2004 election — Michael Badnarik, a computer programmer and "Constitutional scholar" from Austin, Texas.

Luckily, Google cached his speech on the war in Iraq before the site underwent a recent redesign.

The United Nations HAS no authority over our national sovereignty, and I would demonstrate that to the world in a dramatic and unmistakable way. The day I enter the Oval Office, I will give notice to the United Nations. Member nations would have one week to evacuate their offices in the UN building in New York. They would have seven days to box up their computers, their paper work, and family photos. At noon on the eighth day, after ensuring that the building was empty, I would personally detonate the explosive charges that would reduce the building to rubble. The same type of rubble we had to clean up after September 11th. I want to send a message around the world that United States foreign policy had changed dramatically, and unmistakably.

Bear in mind, this is coming from a guy who's diametrically opposed to the US military presence in Iraq.

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