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2012-02-05 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Amnesty: Syria Veto a 'Shockingly Callous Betrayal'
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Posted by Fred 2012-02-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Syria 

#1 or as Russia and China call it, "just an average Saturday at the UN"
Posted by Lord Garth 2012-02-05 05:50||   2012-02-05 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Are these people for real?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-02-05 06:47||   2012-02-05 06:47|| Front Page Top

#3 whadda ya think yer gonna get when we give China "most favored nation status" at the UN, hello people, evil communist scumbags dont change their spots!
Posted by 746 2012-02-05 10:58||   2012-02-05 10:58|| Front Page Top

#4 Point taken, but MFN status is a bilateral trade thing - has nothing to do with the UN. Apples & oranges. Sorry to nitpick.
Posted by RandomJD 2012-02-05 12:17||   2012-02-05 12:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Are these people for real?

Yes, unfortunately.

AI isn't getting the money it used to get when Russia was the USSR, and China hasn't been the same since that old reprobate Mao died. The current US administration has positioned itself just-so, that it's gotten harder to raise funds from the anti-US crowd. So AI has had to fall back on the "we're for the downtrodden" schtick to raise funds.

Call it the aging-hooker effect.
Posted by Pappy 2012-02-05 14:11||   2012-02-05 14:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Plus, AI has to pay the rent on its spiffy headquarters in Manhattan here. It's tough to help the downtrodden when you don't have an office with a good view.
Posted by Matt 2012-02-05 14:25||   2012-02-05 14:25|| Front Page Top

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