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The Bush Administration should be applauded for its decision not toseek election to the newly created United Nations Human RightsCouncil. The 47-seat body is not a significant improvement over thehugely discredited Commission on Human Rights (CHR). The newCouncil's complete lack of membership criteria renders it open toinfiltration and manipulation by the world's worst human rightsabusers. Significantly, Burma, Syria, Libya, China, Cuba, Ethiopia,Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Zimbabwe all voted in favor of the newCouncil in the General Assembly, in the face of strong U.S.opposition. The brutal North Korean regime has given the Councilits ringing endorsement. ....

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