YOU GO TO BED WITH DOGS, YOU WAKE UP WITH... – AT 8:19 P.M. ET:  One of the dumber things the Obamans have done, and the list is long, was having America join the vastly corrupt UN Human Rights Council, a kind of group therapy session for dictators, where nations like Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela sit in judgment on "human rights violations" of various democracies.

Apparently, President Obama wanted to be a good sport and show that we can ignore moral corruption at the UN just as well as anyone else can.   It's good to be up there with the big boys.

But when you get involved with thugs, you get mugged:

The disclosure that former President Bush personally approved the “waterboarding” of al-Qaeda terrorist Khalid Sheik Mohammed is expected to bring calls for torture prosecutions – both in the U.S. and at the United Nations.

Americans can expect to hear more about the U.N. Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (CAT), a U.S.-ratified treaty that calls for criminal prosecutions for “complicity or participation in torture.”

And...

Reports on Bush’s comments appeared just ahead of the first U.N. Human Rights Council review of the human rights record of the United States. The subject of torture was on the agenda for some of the countries that lined up to criticize and make recommendations to the U.S. at the meeting in Geneva Friday.

Imagine.  We are being judged by totalitarian regimes.  And we volunteered for it.

Addressing the panel of senior State Department officials present, Iran’s delegate said the U.S. should invite the U.N. human rights experts to investigate Guantanamo and then “put on trial its gross violators of human rights and its war criminals.”

“Put on trial the perpetrators of torture, extrajudicial executions and other serious violations of human rights committed in Guantanamo [and elsewhere],” the Cuban envoy advised the American delegation.

Read the rest of the story.  Take seasickness pills first.  All this was unnecessary.  To have anything to do with these people is an insult to Americans. 

By the way, the man in charge of these things in our State Department, Harold Koh, is the former dean of the Yale Law School, from which Secretary of State Clinton graduated.  He's a theoretician who's very high on the idea that the U.S. should be subject to international rules and laws.  He's a hard leftist.

It is still possible for former President Bush and former Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, among others, to be prosecuted for their actions in "abusing" prisoners while in office, although such prosecutions would tear the country apart. 

And we thought "Alice in Wonderland" was a fantasy.

November 9, 2010