After chiding and chastising the UN Bush then waxed eloquently about individual human rights and brazenly called for the world body to uphold and protect them. Interestingly, the media never even mentioned a word about how many parts of the UN Declaration that as US president Bush had violated, ignored, or ran rough-shod over. Nor did the media remember that it was the United Nations under Kofi Anan that called for him to adhere to international standards and observe human rights safeguards in his “war on terror.”
Conspicuously silent in the saber rattling against Ahmadinejad was the long forgotten fact that it was the United Nations that called in February 2006 on the Bush Administration to shut down its Guantanamo Bay detention camp and charge the hundreds of detainees before a transparent and competent court or set them free. The media has long suffered from the amnesia when it comes to the fact that five independent investigators of the United Nations Commission of Human Rights have repeatedly made recommendations after an exhaustive 18-month probe into the situation of the detainees in Guantanamo that the facility be shut down.
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