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Bolton has been Trying to Kill UN Human Rights Council All Along

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Heritage, AEI and the Hudson Institute have issued a statement decrying the Human Rights Council proposal issued by UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson and have lauded John Bolton's stand.

Where were they when Bolton was uninvolved with the negotiations.

More later on this serious issue.

-- Steve Clemons

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Posted by Crusher Assaultski, Feb 28 2006, 5:39PM - Link

Rights? Humans have no right to anything. Not to justice, not to human decency, and certainly not to any damn fool Geneva Convention. Why, give a human a right and the next thing you know, there are all these expectations. Humans will expect freedom and humans will expect to be free from rendition and free from detention and free from torture. We simply cannot have that now can we. Any government and especially the American government has the right to rendition, detention, and torture. If the United Nations gets it's way, the U.S. will have to give all that stuff up. Holy spumoni, what would the old Bolton do then?

Posted by Alexander Wolfe, Feb 28 2006, 11:47PM - Link

Seriously, that guy is like a bull in the china shop. They don't care what he breaks so long as he breaks as much as he can.

Posted by J., Mar 01 2006, 8:23AM - Link

Tom Toles' editorial cartoon in today's WaPo is a must-see on this subject...

Posted by Pissed Off American, Mar 01 2006, 9:39AM - Link

You ain't seen nuthin' yet. Wait until the neo-cons hand us our next "trifecta", then we will REALLY get to see what these monsters like Cheney and Bolton are capable of.

Coming soon, to a city near you, Bush's next move.