Romney Calls On U.N. to Bar Iranian President

[Purveyor]

By Michael Luo

Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate, is sending a letter to the United Nations Secretary General tomorrow, calling for him to bar Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from addressing the General Assembly next week and instead hand him an indictment under the Genocide Convention.

Mr. Ahmadinejad is scheduled to give a speech at the 62nd annual meeting of the General Assembly, which begins Tuesday in New York. It will be his third visit to the United States, where he is expected to spend two days, before he departs for Venezuela to meet with President Hugo Chavez.
An array of Jewish leaders, political leaders and others, including John Bolton, the former United States ambassador to the United Nations and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, gathered last year to call for the United Nations’ International Court of Justice to indict Mr. Ahmadinejad for incitement of genocide. They base their argument on his calls for the destruction of Israel.

The specific statute the officials cite falls under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which includes under its list of prohibitions, incitement to commit genocide.

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/romney-calls-on-un-to-bar-iranian-president/

[ck4829]

1. Ahem

Remember when Republicans envisioned a white (And Republican) New Orleans - Akin to Ethnic Cleansing

Furthermore, I don't know why Republicans are citing International Law right now, they have broken it so many times, it's something that people don't even get mad over nowadays.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Reminds me of when Giuliani was trying to be a tough guy by kicking

Yasir Arafat out of Lincoln Center where Arafat had been invited as part of a U.N. concert.

The White House bitch-slapped Giuliani for overreaching.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7D6163DF936A15753C1A963958260

[peacetalksforall]

3. I think Romney has the firm of HLR working for him as advisors -

sounds like Hannity Limbaugh Robertson Ltd (limited to absurdity) - type advice that will pander to the followers.

[jmatthan]

4. One more reason to Move The UN

http://movetheun.blogspot.com/2007/09/one-more-reason-to-move-un.html

[AlCzervik]

5. once again romney is as dumb as a bag of rocks. I love the way he's letting himself get used

by people like John Bolton, what a gawddamn dolt.

[Kelly Rupert]

6. Isolating dictators works really well to weaken them.

For instance, look at Castro. Wait, no. Gaddafi. No, wait. Kim? No, no, I'll get one. How about Arafat? Does he count as a...oh, doesn't matter anyway...Saddam? No...Mao, maybe? No, no...

Okay, let me amend that. Isolating dictators works really well to strengthen their stranglehold on government and impoverishes their people. I think that'll work.