Posted on 10/18/2007 6:59:23 PM PDT by JRochelle
No, Sudan was not it in. (There was another useless UN unit, Commission on Human Rights, which had Sudan and Libya in it).
HRC is UN unit, and US is part of UN so technically US belongs to HRC (even if it is not in its council - similarly some countries are not in UN Security Council). The council membership is rotating.
US is currently supporting HRC:
U.S. President George W. Bush declared that the United States would not seek a seat on the Council, saying it would be more effective from the outside. He did pledge, however, to support the Council financially. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said, “We will work closely with partners in the international community to encourage the council to address serious cases of human rights abuse in countries such as Iran, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Burma, Sudan, and North Korea.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_Human_Rights_Council
Mucho time between now and Jan. '08.
Matter of fact, mucho tiempo between now and Nov. '08.
We shall see what grain is culled from the chafe.
5.56mm
“Gadaffi To Head Human Rights Body”
This is a different entity (equally bad, though).
This entity was shut down because countries like Libya were chairing it.
>>>When is the brilliant JRochelle going to show up?<<<
Oh, I think he’s been shown up already tonight...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-04-06-humanrightscouncil_x.htm
Here is some clarification- we were not tossed out, we chose not to run in the nomination process, fearing that we may lose.
At any rate we are not on UN HRC now and have not been since 1996. We do provide some funding.
Also, I put up links to two quite different stories, different points of view.
“Further, the United States has not officially withdrawn itself from the Council nomination process. This has been an annual event. Koffi Annan has taken an active part in trying to convince the US to rejoin the council—a move that has twice been rejected, though funding continued.
I posted as much on the original thread.”
Yeah, but facts like that just get in the way of taking a cheap shot.
I don’t think they realize that at some point we will need to pull together and support the candidate, whoever it is.
I don’t know who posted the orginal thread but they stated a lie in the title.
Romney didn’t say he thinks we should withdraw from the U.N.
He thinks we should withdraw from the HRC, something we don’t even belong to, and will not, even if nominated.
He wants to form an new U.N.
All smoke and mirrors. Typical Romney.
I see it was you who posted the misleading title in the other thread.
>>>>something we don’t even belong to, and will not, even if nominated.<<<
Wrong.
The Council replaced the Commission. And it more a farce than ever...FUNDED by US dollars. We do not have a seat. We own a seat.
Difference was… John McCain knew what he was talking about.
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but does he know how to run anything? a state? the olympics? his presidential campaign?
Romney reminds me a lot of John Kerry. He is just too fake to vote for.
“We own a seat.”
Well, we are paying for a seat, but we are avoiding the pain of rejection by not entering the nomination process.
If we are not nominated, we don’t have a seat on HRC- even though we are giving them monet, we do not have a seat on HRC.
No seat.
Ping me when the AP writes about man biting dog /sarc
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You are right. We do not own a seat. We own all the seats. The point, while everyone is marketing the most conservative candidate, is to finance a working body.
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