January 21, 2003

UN BELIEVABLE:

Libya to chair UN panel on rights (Mike Trickey, January 21, 2003, The Ottawa Citizen)
Canada, the U.S. and a third country, believed to be Guatemala, voted against Libya's nomination yesterday, but most of the other western states followed the UN tradition of abstaining as a form of protest, while 33 of the 53 members of the UN panel voted in favour.

Libya, still under UN sanctions for its role in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing of a Pan-Am airliner that killed 270, was nominated by the African Union, whose turn it was to propose the human rights body's rotational chair.


Is this the same UN whose permission we're supposed to seek before attacking Iraq, another brutal totalitarian dictatorship in the Arab world? How can anyone take the place seriously? Why weren't any of these whiny "human rights" protestors this weekend marching in front of the UN and denouncing this abomination? Posted by Orrin Judd at January 21, 2003 12:31 PM
Comments

But Orrin, didn't you know? Qaddafi's just a swell guy now... I mean, the NYTimesMag says it
, so it must be so!

Posted by: Kevin Whited at January 21, 2003 12:47 PM

This decision here made me lose whatever fragment of faith I had in the UN.

Posted by: M Ali Choudhury at January 21, 2003 4:41 PM

to: M Ali Choudhury



"This decision here made me lose whatever fragment of faith I had in the UN. "

Please make this sentiment crystal clear to your Congresscritters, and ask whem why we continue to pay billions to support this bad joke.

Posted by: ralph phelan at January 22, 2003 3:46 PM

to: M Ali Choudhury



"This decision here made me lose whatever fragment of faith I had in the UN. "

Please make this sentiment crystal clear to your Congresscritters, and ask whem why we continue to pay billions to support this bad joke.

Posted by: ralph phelan at January 22, 2003 3:46 PM
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