UN human rights council restricts human rights


	UN human rights council restricts human rights

n2sooners

4-3-2008 4:54 PM

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un, united nations, politics, religion, islam, free speech

n2sooners says:

When are we going to dump that money pit that is the UN and reclaim that valuable US property they are wasting?

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