Pay No Attention To The Crooks Behind the Curtain

Courtesy of the folks at Power line, check out this website called "Eye on the U.N." It is a well of facts regarding the hapless organization and it's handling of some of the most important issues of the day.

Do you know how many of the member states of the U.N. could be described as full-fledged democracies? Would you be surprised to learn that the number doesn't even rise to 50 percent?

How about human rights actions taken by the U.N.? With all of those dictators out there it shouldn't be hard to imagine which countries would be in the top five for having action taken against them. Indonesia? Lebanon? China? Phillipines? Somalia? Algeria? Rwanda? Cuba? North Korea?

Try again.

Given that the U.S., with it's atrocious record on human rights and penchant for violating "international law," is such a bad, bad, guy, it is almost hard to believe to what degree we actually support the U.N.

The United States has the maximum assessed contribution to the UN regular budget - 22%. In 2005 the assessed amount is $439,611,612. The minimum assessed contribution is 0.001%. The scale of assessments for each UN member for the required contributions to the regular budget is determined every 3 years on the basis of Gross National Product (GNP).

By all means check this site out. Bookmark it even. With Volcker's report fresh off the presses and "reform" the watchword by U.N. leadership desperate for us to forget exactly how ineffective and, dare I say, crooked the institution is, it is good to be informed as to the truth.

Of course, the institution has proven to be coated in teflon over the past decade. It is protected by an endless stream of leftists who are so busy fabricating charges against Bush that it doesn't have time for honest to God crooks and liars.

I would like to suggest that, following his tenure at President, George W. Bush promptly be named our ambassador to the U.N. Since only a fascist right-wing organization would have anything to do with Mr. Bush, the simple-minded left could thus be tricked into going after their own pet organization.