“We don’t understand the reasons nor the timing of the decision”, said Sebastien Gillioz of Human Rights Watch. “There have even been some positive signs during this Council. For example Belarus was not re-elected as a member in 2007 nor Sri Lanka this year”.

The stupefaction was made greater by the fact the US actively took part in the universal Periodic Review (UPR) process where 32 countries were scrutinized by their peers in April and May. In particular a series of recommendations were made regarding Romania, Japan, Guatemala, Peru, Tunisia, Ukraine, Indonesia and others.

Diplomats are equally concerned. If the current president of the Council, Doru Costea, declined to comment, his predecessor, Luis Alfonso De Alba said that he didnt see any reason to justify such a decision. Several observers mentioned Washington’s growing discontentment with the influence of the Islamic and African countries in the Council.

“It is an aberration”, said Peter Splinter of Amnesty Internatio

It is not an aberration, it is the Bush administration holding the rest of the world in contempt.

Sorry that comment about aberration was cut short.
This all part of the Neocon plan to cut all ties with anything decent before the big takeover.

They won't play by Bush's rules so he is taking his ball and going home.

It's not an aberration. Nixon, Reagan, Kissinger. The list of American politicians and diplomats who've found human right organizations inconvenient here at home and abroad is long.

Good for us. The so called Human Rights Council was nothing more than a joke. It was a parody of itself. We should have quit trying to legitimize it long ago.

Well, Ntoo-soon, I hadn't thought you could be quite so obtuse, but...so be it. The USA should just withdraw from everything except the torturer's Council and the Greedy freaks of the world, neh?

Well, if this story is true then we just withdrew from the torturer's council and I think we should dump the whole greedy freaky UN too.

Well, if this story is true then we just withdrew from the torturer's council and I think we should dump the whole greedy freaky UN too.

AGREED. I'll pop this clip just for that comment lol.

Ignorant and dangerous nationalism

Well, if this story is true then we just withdrew from the torturer's council and I think we should dump the whole greedy freaky UN too.

I thought that was the one Council the U.S. was dying, I mean, killing to get in.