Mitt Romney [called] upon the United States to withdraw from a United Nations council that the United States isn't a part of to begin with.[…]
"We should withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council."
There's one problem: The United States already boycotts the Human Rights Council, and has not sought a seat on it. This caused an aide to clarify the remarks by saying what Romney really meant is that the U.S. should stop any possible financial support for the council.
Yeah. Sure. "We should withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council,” seems pretty clear to me.
Romney also said he would support an alternative to the United Nations, an all-new "coalition of the free nations of the world and bring those nations together so that we can act together.""We should develop some of our own — if you will — forums and alliances or groups that have the ability to actually watch out for the world and do what's right […]”
That’s really quite funny in at least a couple of ways: in comparison to the Coalition of the Willing we put together for the Iraq invasion, and to a schoolyard crybaby who goes off to start his own club when the collective doesn’t want to accept his dominion. Twit should take his act on tour. His boys already know how to drive a bus.
In fact, I believe it was largely due to the Abu Ghraib horror that the U.S. in effect took its toys and went home. Speculation was that it was a pretty sure bet the U.S. would not win a seat on the Council, and so refused to take part.
The United Nations General Assembly established the Human Rights Council on 15 March 2006. by a vote which was opposed only by United States, Marshall Islands and Palau (bound to the United States through Compacts of Free Association), and Israel. The United States explained its vote was due to there being not enough safeguards to keep human rights abusing nations off the council.
Very funny.
So anyway, I guess Twit's group of countries who would "watch out for the world" would be the U.S., the Marshall Islands and Palau.
Too funny for words.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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