U.S. voted against UN anti-terror measure in 2002

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Found this in an old "Top 10 Conservative Idiots"

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-un-torture0725jul24.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dnation%2Dheadlines

http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/02/77.html


The Bush Administration
Is the Bush Administration soft on torture? Last week the UN held a vote on a
protocol to provide strict monitoring of prisons and other facilities to verify
that torture is not taking place. As democratic governments across Europe and Latin
America lined up in support of the measure, the United States was opposed. The U.S.
stance put us in the esteemed company of backward-ass human-rights basket cases
like Iran, Nigeria, China, Cuba, Pakistan, and Egypt. A veritable human-rights honor
roll, these countries. It’s embarrassing. Do the schmucks in this Administration have
any shame at all?