Posted on 08/09/2009 8:19:11 AM PDT by AJKauf
President Obama’s awarding of a Presidential Medal of Freedom to former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson has sparked widespread criticism. Commentators have pointed to Robinson’s role in the infamous 2001 Durban “anti-racism” conference and, more generally, to what UN Watch has suggested is a long record of bias against Israel.
Oddly enough, however, little has been made of Robinson’s views on America. More specifically, her once-upon-a-time, highly publicized, and controversial criticisms of the Iraq war and the “war on terror” appear to have fallen into a memory hole.
And yet it is surely the latter — and not her forays into the Middle East conflict — that inspired the current American administration to honor Robinson as an Obamaesque “agent of change.”
As a politician who rose to prominence virtually overnight as a militant opponent of George Bush’s “wrong war of choice,” it is hardly surprising that Obama would want to honor an international dignitary who, back in the day, was one of the more prominent voices to oppose the Iraq war before it happened. Thus, in February 2003, not yet six months after the end of her term as high commissioner, and a month before the start of the U.S.-led invasion, Robinson penned an editorial for the Irish Times titled “War not the way to restore human rights to Iraq”. Never mind that nobody had said that the war was about “restoring human rights” and that Robinson had raised no such objections regarding NATO’s ostensible “humanitarian intervention” in Kosovo four years earlier.....
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I know nothing about this but let me guess...African-American, Socialist,..Marxist. etc. etc.
Yeah, they pine for the days of the plastic shredders and rape camps, instead of having to deal with all of this damn voting and small business development.
She was President of Ireland and went on to be the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Big time socialist, Anti-American and, of course, anti-Israel.
Obama will give more awards to America hating anti-Semites like Mary Robinson
OK I thought it was an American Medal. How come Obama is giving out Irish medals?
The Presidential Awards under Obama will become more like the Nobel Peace Prize and the Academy Awards, just another political payoff.
Maybe for the occasion, he changed his name to Barry O'bama.
He really does hate the United States.
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