US isolation on rights body increasing.

[Flabbergasted]

This is getting really really really really sick. Has anyone read about this in US MSM.


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E66F2625-D594-45FE-B12B-AB3C4A169E8F.htm

US isolation on rights body increasing

Friday 03 March 2006, 17:37 Makka Time, 14:37 GMT

World leaders decided last year to set up a Human Rights Council

The US has become increasingly isolated in its opposition to the proposed UN Human Rights Council, as its closest allies in Europe and Japan have joined many other countries and human-rights groups in backing the new body.

Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, said on Thursday that he was "chagrined about the US position" and doesn't know how the issue will be resolved.

He expressed hope that the US "will find some way of associating itself with the other member states".

World leaders at September's UN summit decided to create a Human Rights Council to replace the discredited UN Human Rights Commission, which has been criticised for allowing some of the worst rights-offending countries to use their membership to protect one another from condemnation.

[Flabbergasted]

1. Oh this is fucking rich...

The US announced on Monday that it would vote against the council unless the draft was renegotiated to correct what it views as serious deficiencies, especially the chance that countries abusing human rights could become members.

[Drum]

2. In the background, I can almost hear

the bleating of country-club Barbara Bush (Sr.)