US says UN should bar rights abusers from new body

[Eugene]

US says UN should bar rights abusers from new body
12 Jan 2006 00:55:37 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Evelyn Leopold

UNITED NATIONS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - U.S. Ambassador John Bolton warned U.N. members on Wednesday
that allowing countries that had committed gross human rights abuses to serve on a new rights
council would mock the legitimacy of the United Nations itself.

Bolton, speaking at a closed meeting, presented several proposals on how to create the new council
that would replace the discredited Geneva-based Human Rights Commission, known for giving seats
to such countries as Sudan and Zimbabwe who then make deals to block resolutions against various
offenders.

"The current situation is untenable and must not be allowed to continue," Bolton said, according
to a copy of his written text. "Membership on the Commission by some of the world's most notorious
human rights abusers mocks the legitimacy of the Commission and the United Nations itself."

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And in an oblique reference to criticisms that the United States invoked double standards when its
own military had committed torture in Iraq, Bolton said, "When the United States falls short of the
high standards we set for ourselves, we move swiftly and decisively to vigorously prosecute offenders
who are U.S. citizens in our courts."

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N11161214.htm

Yeah, right! Whatever you say, Bonkers.

[bpilgrim]

1. will american exceptionalism prevail

or will we get the boot, too :shrug:

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peace

[PDJane]

2. Scary........

between the US and its allies, that could limit membership severely...........

[firefox]

3. Bonkers Bolton alright.

Give them a good laugh at your incompetence, Bolton.

[tocqueville]

4. does that mean that "Stach" wants to "vigorously prosecute" GW ?

after all he is commander in chief...

[UpInArms]

5. Pot meet Kettle .... n/t

[IndianaGreen]

6. So much for the US, the world's worst human rights abuser!

Thankfully, Bolton's term ends next year as the new Congress takes office, I can only hope Democrats take control of at least one house.

[applegrove]

7. I agree that Lybia shouldn't be in charge of Human Rights. But who

had the fucking Veto?

I can think of only 5 countries. How'd it happen?

[CatholicEdHead]

8. Is this his new round-about way to "ban" us from the UN?

That would accomplish the goals of us leaving the UN.

[countmyvote4real]

9. That was my first thought, too.

This is how the US gets out of the UN.

[Tarc]

10. my first was...

...but where will Bolton sit now?

[countmyvote4real]

14. Anywhere Dear Leader decides to recess appoint him. n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Sure seems like it n/t

[HuffleClaw]

11. "countries that had committed gross human rights abuses"

well, then i guess the US will be crossed off that list by common consent. bolton is such a hateful rhetoric-spewing idiot, a cheap mouthpiece of bush. and his cute excusing of their own actions was just plain insulting. everyone knows it wasn't a 'few bad apples' but official government policy, formulated and ordered at the highest level.

[MisterP]

12. the UN's "legitimacy"? So this is how State Dept's new paradigm

will be set into motion--declare the UN "illegitimate."

[bemildred]

15. Start with Dolton, exclude him. nt

[TheGunslinger]

16. That's odd. I don't recall seeing the following people on trial....

Bush
Cheney
Rumsfeld
Gonzales
Chertoff
Miers
Ashcroft
Yoo
Sanchez