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March 18th 2009     

The Joy Of Funding The U.N.

Posted by: Laer at 06:50 am

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h, the U.N. – always good for a lesson in how to really take a chomp out of the hand that feeds you.  Here’s the latest, comments from the esteemed president of the U.N. General Assembly, Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, representing that pillar of democracy and human rights, Nicaragua:

The outspoken president of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday accused the United States of demonizing Iran’s president and criticized the International Criminal Court for issuing an arrest warrant for Sudan’s leader for war crimes in Darfur.

Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, a Roman Catholic priest from Nicaragua with openly leftist views, also reiterated that the more he thinks about the conditions that Israel imposes on the Palestinians, the more he tends “to think about apartheid.” …

“I don’t think anyone can doubt that in our part of the world … [President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad has been demonized,” he said. “The United States has been in the business of the demonization of people forever and the canonization of the worst of dictators.” …

D’Escoto called the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity “unfortunate” and “lamentable” because the African Union and the Arab League had asked the Security Council to delay the warrant for a year to pursue peace efforts in Darfur. (JPOST)

When I was a teen – 40 years ago – I saw my first “Get the U.S. out of the U.N.” sign and thought it a quaint symbol of Neaderthal thinking by rednecks.  Who could not like the U.N., producer of those nice UNESCO Christmas cards? Funny how that Neaderthal redneck has gotten smarter and smarter as the years went by.

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  1. tibby

    March 18th, 2009 at 9:49 am

    When are we going to boot them out of here??!!??

  2. Jake diPluma

    March 19th, 2009 at 5:09 am

    For starters, move the UN to Teheran.

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