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Twizted Humanitarian Crew
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 Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:18 am
PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. - Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney called the United Nations a failure on Thursday and said he would support a new coalition of the free nations of the world.
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The former Massachusetts governor said the U.N. Human Rights Council has repeatedly condemned Israel while taking no action against nations with repressive regimes.
"The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late," Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. "We should withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council."
Actually, the United States doesn't have a seat on the human rights council, which it has been boycotting.
Romney also said he would support a new "coalition of the free nations of the world and bring those nations together so that we can act together."
"We should develop some of our own — if you will — forums and alliances or groups that have the ability to actually watch out for the world and do what's right," Romney said.
Romney was sharing the political attention in this state with GOP rival John McCain, who is on his second consecutive day of campaigning here.
McCain, in an interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday, accused both Russia and China of causing gridlock in the U.N. Security Council and hindering the world body's ability to sanction Iran or address pressing matters in Darfur, Burma and other trouble spots.
If elected, McCain said he would form a league of democracies to circumvent the Security Council and enact tough sanction against Iran and other problem countries.
Romney, who has been criticized for his changing view on abortion, was also asked where he stood on the issue that is important to voters in this conservative state.
"I am pro life and I am proud to be pro life," Romney said.
The former governor also said he would oppose using federal dollars for abortions and would appoint Supreme Court justices opposed to abortions.
He said he opposes using cloning or practices that create human cells for stem cell research.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:45 pm
I am firmly opposed to such an idea. I believe that no nation or group of nations has any right to interfere with the internal affairs of another. While I have no problem against sanctions and/or embargos, I do have a problem with the reasoning that we should do more to force another contry to bend to our will, which seems to be the main theme behind this suggestion.
My acceptance of sanctions comes from what little I know of them. Sanctions are usually referred to in a sense of refusing to trade certain commodities, and refusing to allow their officials in. I beleive nations have a right to decide who they will and will not trade with, and who they do and do not allow into their country. They do not, however, have any right to hold any other nation to such a policy.
And since when is the U.N an actual government? I thought it was meant as a sort of massive international diplomatic meeting, where nations could discuss the issues and state their veiwpoints. I admit, I'm not very knowledgable about the orginazation, but it seems to me the upholding of sanctions falls to the governments of member nations who agree to them, not the U.N. itself.
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:25 pm
Wow, I'm actually somewhat impressed. I doubt he would actually take the US out of the UN if he became President though. I'd still support Ron Paul, because he's also anti-UN and, unlike Romney, he isn't a neo-con.
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:48 pm
What's wrong with neocons?
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