UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee

LibRT writes "The irony-challenged folks at the UN have named North Korea chair of the Conference on Disarmament, which is heavily focused on the prevention of a nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament. The Canadian government has boycotted the convention, calling it an 'absurd' turn of events: 'North Korea is simply not a credible chair of a disarmament body. The fact that it gets a turn chairing a United Nations committee focused on disarmament is unacceptable, given the North Korean regime's efforts in the exact opposite direction.'" Note that Libya was once president of the UN's Human Rights Commission, and only recently removed from its successor in interest, the Human Rights Council.

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Re:considering that Obama

[Curunir_wolf]

And yet, compared to W/republicans, I would have to say that Obama has been peaceful. Heck, we are on the verge of being out of Iraq and even Afghanistan is winding down. So, yeah.

BZZZZT! Try paying attention, instead of filtering media information for just the information that fits your hopes / ideology. Like the New York Times headline, which announced "Obama Orders Rapid Withdrawal of Troops". What they call "rapid" is somewhere around 10% withdrawal in 6 months, and another 20% of current levels a year later. This "rapid" withdrawal would mean that, 3 years from now, there will only be DOUBLE the number of troops left in Afghanistan than there were when he first took office.

That kind of plan, a new war in Libya, and all the saber-rattling from State Department head Lucifer Clinton about Syria and Yemen is not any closer to "peaceful" than anything that went on during the Bush administration. In fact, Obama isn't different than Bush enough to matter, and I would go even furtherand say he's not just a continuation of Bush-the-warmonger-statist-police-state-tyrant, he's more like Bush-on-steroids.

But good luck convincing yourself that "change is coming".