“So serial proliferator North Korea presided over the UN’s disarmament body, and Iran, a regime which stones women to death, is a member of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. We’re paying for a U.N. that just appointed as the head of its Kosovo mission an individual involved with the infamous Oil-for-Food scandal, and a U.N. that goes after whistle blowers while protecting the corrupt.” – The New York Sun
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Defund United Nations Failures Now
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida is especially keen to cut funding to the UN Human Rights Council, which uses taxpayer money to produce reports praising the human-rights achievements of countries such as … Libya . Earlier this year, Ros-Lehtinen declared her desire to “kill all U.S. funding for that beast,” which she described as “a rogue’s gallery of pariah states.”
Whatever Happened to the United Nations?
How did such a respectable international governmental organization, one that fought a bloody war including 16-member states which beat back a Communist invasion of South Korea from 1950-1953, come to symbolize little more than a leftist think tank embracing a platform for anti-Western rhetoric?
UN corruption is costing US $5 billion a year
Former UN Ambassador John Bolton on UN waste and fraud. Corruption scandals include weapons trafficking, oil for food, sex scandals and bribery. The US funds 22-25% of the UN budget.