Posted on 03/03/2006 6:29:38 AM PST by FreedomNeocon
We've been following the proposed United Nations Human Rights Council to take the place of the disgraced and disgraceful United Nations Human Rights Commission. Last week Ambassador Bolton took a leaf from the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and pronounced the proposed new Council the same as the same as the bad old Commission. This week Secretary Rice confirmed that the United States opposed the new Council.
Just one problem. The New York Sun reports that Jimmy Carter had personaly promised the ambassadors from Egypt, Pakistan, and Cuba that the Council was a done deal:
The story, as Mr. Carter recalled, began with a recent dinner for 17 he attended in New York, where the guests included the president of the U.N. General Assembly, Jan Eliasson; an unidentified American representative, and other U.N. ambassadors from "powerful" countries at Turtle Bay, of which he mentioned only three: Cuba, Egypt, and Pakistan. The topic was the ongoing negotiations on an attempt to replace the widely discredited Geneva-based Human Rights Commission with a more accountable Human Rights Council.
"One of the things I assured them of was that the United States was not going to dominate all the other nations of the world in the Human Rights Council," Mr. Carter said. However, on the next day, Mr. Carter said, Mr. Bolton publicly "demanded" that the five permanent members of the Security Council will have permanent seats on the new council as well, "which subverted exactly what I have promised them," Mr. Carter said.
"So I called Condoleezza Rice and told her about the problem, and she said that that statement by our representative was not going to be honored," he said. But despite Mr. Carter's assessment that there are "a lot of people" in Washington who oppose Mr. Bolton on the Human Rights Council, Mr. Bolton's opposition to the proposed new structure became American policy.
Jimmy Carter seems under the illusion that Ambassador Bolton is acting as a free agent when he speaks in public on questions related to the United Nations. The Sun helpfully adds: Mr. Bolton's spokesman, Richard Grenell, told The New York Sun yesterday that it is "naive" to think that Mr. Bolton has "a different position than the rest of the United States government on this issue." Jimmy Carter seems to be confusing the Bush administration with his own, in which United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young defied Carter administration policy and got himself fired. Next thing you know, Carter will "fire" Ambassador Bolton.
I love how he openly acts as a brake on American "domination" as if American ideals were a BAD thing.
Worst...President...ever.
I was just getting ready to post this;
Carter Seeks Vote in U.N. Against U.S.
Link; http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=28484
Sometimes I have to rub my eyes and scratch my head and wonder if I am living in BAZARRO WORLD. Geez.
Yeah exactly.
If I, a regular American Citizen, had tried to diplomatically convey such remarks without permission/belssing of the current administration, I'd probably be extradited back to US soil & arrested.
And what "official government" position does James Carter legally occupy???
You know, at what point does this cross the line into treason? Seriously, this is ridiculous.
And who are the idiot countries that thought they should believe him? Bizarro world indeed
When he, like all of us, passes away, his funeral/jamboree will make the Wellstone and King send-offs look like respectful events, and the public will recoil and the dems will go down to defeat at the next election.
Why would any UN officials regard anything that ex-President Carter says as authoritative or reflecting American policy?
(sigh) Yeah, those were the good old days, huh?
And was Carter involved in "validating" their elections?
He earns for us the trust of people we don't care to associate with. Thanks for the help, dope!
Turning into fossil fuel under layers of swamp detritus.
Why do we keep playing these games with Carter.
He's a traitor. Chanrge him with treason already!
He made a deal with North Korea that Clinton let stand. He supposedly did that on his own but Clinton may have been hiding behind his coattails.
This is like coming into a business that you no longer work at and calling the customers on behalf of it. They take you away in a staight jacket.
This nation's (election) losers are having entirely too much say.
My aploligies to fellow FReepers... I got carried away and used my own title.
Powerline used the (now reposted) Jimmy Carter: Nut
I know we aren't supposed to rename titles for this very reason.. but "Carter : Nut" just didn't seem descriptive enough for the content, and could be the title of just about any Jimmy Carter piece.
Anyway, sorry about causing a later dupe.
I like your analogy.
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