UN has been hijacked by the world's worst [Toronto Sun]
With the United Nations now inflicting moral outrages on the civilized world at the rate of about one a week, the question must be asked if the world body can be saved from itself.
Last week's outrage was the news that Iraq will co-chair the UN's key disarmament negotiating forum during its May 12 to June 27 meetings in Geneva. The chairs are chosen alphabetically and it's Iraq's turn, along with co-chair ... wait for it ... Iran.
Never mind that Iraq is under UN sanctions for invading Kuwait, is in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions regarding its own disarmament and that Iraq and Iran, another dictatorship, fought a brutal, eight-year war against each other for most of the 1980s. Such jaw- dropping inanities are simply business as usual at the UN.
The week before, it was word that Libya, one of the world's worst human rights violators, had been elected to chair the UN Human Rights Commission... [much more interesting info snip]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/834383/posts Yes. This practice is bizarre. But if they decided to skip over the countries that were guilty of atrocities they'd decide that everyone was guilty. You know the UN. Hey they're up to the I's. Remember, we sat through the Congo already during the war. It seems a ridiculous kindergarten kind of "let's let everyone have their turn". It's time for them to grow up.