Mixed Up Stories II
By Jim Lynch on Jul 28, 2006 in Humor, Mixed Up Stories
It’s happened again. Somehow these three stories got mixed together. How does this keep happening? 
U.N. officials said Hezbollah militants had been operating in the area of the post near the eastern end of the border with Israel, a routine tactic to prevent Israel from attacking them.
Speaking from prepared testimony, Bolton called for a “durable solution” to the violence in the Middle East and the need to “defang” Hezbollah.
“For China and for others, we condemn this because I think any attack on the United Nations positions and the United Nations personnel is inexcusable and unacceptable,” China’s U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said.
The panel of 18 independent experts, which reviews the practices of the 156 countries who have ratified the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, said it was concerned about information that blacks and poor people “were disadvantaged by the rescue and evacuation plans implemented when Hurricane Katrina hit.”
Several Democrats said during the nomination hearing Thursday that their views had not changed, citing reports that Bolton has alienated other ambassadors and failed to make progress on U.N. reform efforts.
“We did repeatedly in recent days say (to Israel) that this was an exposed position, that Hezbollah militants were 500 meters (yards) away shielding themselves near U.N. workers and civilians,” U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said. “That’s why it is so inexplicable that what happened.”
The United States must better protect poor people and African-Americans in natural disasters to avoid problems like those after Hurricane Katrina, a U.N. human rights panel said Friday.
Bolton said he had established “good working relationships” with other U.N. members and was making progress, telling the senators, “I have done my best to work with others to advance our national interests.”
I’ve gotta get this obvious computer glitch looked in to.
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