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I never much believed the campaign jokes about George Jr's intelligence. But as comedians interviewed on Nightline noted, those George Jr. intelligence jokes don't work very well as people now suspect they were not jokes.

Well, he insulted the German Chancellor, talks the economy into recession to promote a economic joke called a tax cut, ignores the work in Kosovo when reintegration now requires careful attention, encouraged the dic head leader of Israel to murder hundreds of Palestinians and to destroy the last vestiges of the Oslo Accords because a few Jews died (see the Mitchel report for a logical assement of Middle East violence), undermines relations with China and North Korea, earns derogatory comments from the Norwegian Foreign Minister, denies citizens an education because they used something less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes, protects the cigarette industry whose executives can lie boldfaced to Congress while under oath, hires a drug enforcement offical who clearly and stupidly declares that drug treatment does not work ... What more can this darling of right wing extremists do to appease the power hungry fringe? He continues...

Regarding the US removal from Human Rights commission-
From The Economist of 12 May 2001 - a conservative news publication:
"" ... the United States itself was far from blameless in the affair. Its embarrassment was no doubt partly a consequence of incompetence. It has no ambassador at the UN present ... But an American ambassador would have had his work cut out last week. Even many of Ameria's allies have been alarmed at the apparent disdain for multilaterialism of the new administration. The humility that George Bush preached as a candidate - "If we are an arrogant nation, they will resent us," he said - seems to have got lost in the scramble to reject the Kyoto treaty on climate change, the treaty to setup a world criminal court, the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, the effort to make cheap AIDS drugs available in poor countries, a convention on disappearances, and so on. [the man has not even been in office six months - what relationship has he not damaged? What progress has he not destroyed?] If so many traditionaly friendly countries failed to come to America's support, that was partly because America itself has been unneccessarily peremptory.""

The man has so much extremist right wing sediments that even close US friends are stepping aside. US only a year ago had nothing but historically the most cordial relations with most every world nation. In less than six months, a mental midget has destroyed relations with almost every nation except those in S America. But then he continues to only make things worse:

""The most regrettable consequence of the episode is that it has played straight into the hands of the right wing members of Congress who like to believe that the UN and all its doings are resolutely opposed to the United States [of course everyone is an enemy to a right wing mentality]. Never mind that this outfit [Human Rights Commission], sitting in Geneva and reflecting not the UN secretariat but the governments of some 53 members, has little to do with the UN proper. Plenty of far-right Republicans are already tempted to seize last week's vote as a chance to throw out the deal, negotiated in the final days of the Clinton administration, whereby America at last coughs up its unpaid dues in return for a cut in its UN contributions [and restructuring of UN operations]. That would set America's relations with the UN on a downward spiral once more - to the detriment of even more than human rights.""

Even from a responsible conservative news publications, George Jr's last six months appear, at best, incompetant. The list of destruction is so long that most don't even know of 10% of Geroge's undoing.