BY RICH GALEN
Reprinted from Mullings.com

During the presidency of George W. Bush, member states of the United Nations declined to re-elect the United States to one of the seats reserved for Western States on the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

They elected, instead, France, Austria, and Sweden.

The Bush Administration was unmoved by the slight, pointing out that the UN Human Rights Commission routinely elected such paragons of human rights as Rwanda, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iran, Somalia, and Uganda. Continue reading →