Well now that we know for sure what we all suspected why do you think the US was elected to the UN Human Rights Council? After years of American grousing about the human rights violators which were on the original council do you think they finally realized that they have now accomplished that level of atrocities and can now join their council compatriots in torture. Now the US can tell the rest of the world how to deliver human rights the American way, screams, blood and all.

Well now that we know for sure what we all suspected why do you think the US was elected to the UN Human Rights Council? After years of American grousing about the human rights violators which were on the original council do you think they finally realized that they have now accomplished that level of atrocities and can now join their council compatriots in torture. Now the US can tell the rest of the world how to deliver human rights the American way, screams, blood and all.

Just rope 'em up and brand 'em

Soon you'll be ridin' tall and high..

Either it's wrong for us to criticize the diverse and manifold cultures of others, or, it's the Jews' fault. I fully support any far away country who executes hundreds of minors for being gay, AND, gets to sit on the HUMAN RIGHTS body of the very same organization doin' the criticizing of everyone else. I champion it and can't wait for the New French Revolution, the Reign of Terror to sweep its righteous way across America.

Why castigate 'em

Why rebuke 'em

Its so much easier

To just nuke 'em..

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124355320443064445.html

Mr. Mostafaei's errand should have been routine, if solemn: He represents 30 of the 135 criminals under the age of 18 on Iran's death row. Instead, he says, he was detained and grilled for an hour and a half, part of Iran's widening crackdown on human-rights activists.

Iran's use of the death penalty in juvenile cases has become particularly controversial, largely due to efforts by Mr. Mostafaei. The past two years, Iran led the world with a total of 28 hangings of youth offenders. Iran's constitution stipulates that the age of maturity for boys is 15, and for girls, 9 -- the ages at which Islamic law calls for children to take on religious duties such as prayer and fasting. (Executions aren't carried out until the person reaches 18.)

That's world I want to live in. Let sharia ring!

I guess the one thing that preserved our stature of “D-“ rather than “F” is the fact that the UN itself in this report appears to have waived our treaty obligations for us to the Geneva Conventions, calling our conduct “possible war crimes”…

I guess even they don’t recognize it anymore as completely legitimate. Perhaps AG Gonzales was right about "Geneva"' being 'quaint'?...

Perhaps the UN can help find him a job as a clerk in there legal department?

as long as you win the war.

'justice' is defined by the powerful, and america is not yet so weakened that it must bow to foreign opinion. but the ever expanding war on the middle east, collapsing industrial capacity, and blatant protection of the rich- suggests that america's elite may one day soon learn what justice is.

That's something to be PROUD of.

Let US strut!

Of unending war..

Chicken's your leader

With grudges to settle

To even the score...

The military has been remarkably restrained in its overall operations against the Islamo-fascists. Leftists are only interested in a weakened US military in order to promote a borderless world controlled by a One-World Government run by a leftist dictator. The good news is that Obama is having nothing to do with it.

Sure, practically every country in the world is more barbaric and more anti-freedom than the U.S., but that's the burden of being the best. We need to have zero tolerance for torture, or even ordinary prisoner abuse. Zero tolerance for malfeasance in office or discrimination in the government.

I used to think American exceptionalism protected us from doing wrong, but now it's clear that we have to work even harder because of hubris.

If we treat one prisoner badly, that's deplorable. Doesn't matter that there are entire nations who officially despise Jews and want to exterminate them all.

If we have one poor child going hungry tonight, that's deplorable. Doesn't matter that there are entire nations run by despots who deliberately steal food aid from starving youth to feed their armies.

The DoD keeps their house largely in order (domestically). Corrupt purchasers at the Pentagon are weeded out and prosecuted. When nuclear weapons are negligently handled, the event is made public rather than covered up and senior officers are punished.

If only the CIA was held to such standards. Or the FDA or USDA or HUD. If only the DoD set such standards in military-run overseas detainment facilities.

I'm feeling a bit rambly, so I'll mention the Luftwaffe run Hogan's Heroes style prison camps vs prison camps holding captured infantrymen (particularly Russian prisoners). The German Air Force set high standards for prisoner treatment vs German Army POW camps. U.S. military detainment centers (prisons) overseas should be places where bad guys want to be sent. DoD camps should bar CIA interrogations, bar contractor interrogations.

The new meaning describes only the single worst offender in any given category. By that definition, so long as North Korea or Sudan continue to exist, the US human rights record can never be called deplorable.

Neat, huh?

I'm not avoiding any questions, only calling out bullshit. Ask a question, at least I would give a straight answer. Sudan has a UN peacekeeping force in it, its leader has been indicted for war crimes, and it is probably the worst place in existence right about now. Don't you think codemning it for war crimes would be a tad bit redundant?

Now why should I think condemning Sudan, or any other country, should be a prerequisite for calling a western nation's human rights record deplorable? Call me crazy but I don't see the conflict. It's not as if the UN is committing war crimes.