Posted on 03/11/2009 4:11:41 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
NEW YORK, March 10 -- The Obama administration scolded the president of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, saying that his frequent public attacks against the United States and Israel are undercutting the standing of the world's most representative body.
The rebuke comes one day after Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann lashed out at the United States during a visit to Tehran, where he met with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other senior Iranian officials. The leftist Nicaraguan priest and diplomat defended Iran's nuclear program as peaceful and said the United States has not cooperated with other countries at the United Nations, according to Iranian news reports.
Last week, d'Escoto also criticized the U.S. imprisonment of five Cuban agents convicted on espionage charges in 2001, and he urged the United Nations' Geneva-based Human Rights Council to look into alleged human rights abuses by U.S.-led forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, charging that "there are over 1 million civilian deaths in Iraq as a direct result of the U.S.-led aggression and occupation."
Mark Kornblau, a U.S. spokesman, challenged d'Escoto's claims on the number of dead civilians in Iraq, saying the former Sandinista foreign minister "has his facts wrong and seems like he is lost in some kind of time warp."
Alejandro Wolff, the second-ranking U.S. diplomat at the United Nations, said D'Escoto "has repeatedly abused his position to pursue his personal agenda, and in doing so he diminishes the office and harms the General Assembly. He is doing the United Nations a disservice by dividing the membership at a time when he should be a unifying force." ....
D'Escoto has also criticized Israel, saying it should be targeted with a boycott because of its military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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The article said — “The Obama administration scolded the president of the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, saying that his frequent public attacks against the United States and Israel are undercutting the standing of the world’s most representative body.”
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Well, at least Obama got something right! LOL...
Obama et al are having to muzzle their favorite crazy cousin now that they are in charge.
Obama did something right? There must be some sort of mistake somewhere.
Remind me again.... Why are we still in the UN?
I keep forgetting...
Stupid American Cowboy Chimpy Obamau.
It must be REALLY bad there for Obama to come out against them.
Go back and see how many American leftist clergymen backed D’Escoto and the Sandinistas in the late 70’s and 80’s.
D’Escoto is and always has been a Marxist Jesuit traitor to Nicaragua’s people.
Now look where he is. He should have been killed years ago for his treason and possible role in getting people tortured by Minister of Interior Tomas Borge, a convicted murderer and Sandinista leader.
Is the U.S. in the U.N. because the organization would be even more dangerous without the U.S. having a veto in the Security Council? That’s the only reason I can think of at this point.
I don’t think that outweighs paying 25% of the UN budget, most of which is used for evil purposes.
If the US pulled out and kicked them out of New York, I think the organganization would have gone the way of the League of Nations.
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