Now That's Curious

Syria's ambassador to the US, Imad Moustapha, said of the UN report finding top-level Syrian involvement in the assassination of former Lebanon premier Rafik Hariri:

"It will only help fuel anti-American sentiment around the world."

Howzat?! When exactly did the UN become the US' lapdog? I must have missed that story.

Meanwhile, according to AP,

[President Bush] said he had telephoned Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice earlier in the day and instructed her to call on the United Nations to convene a Security Council session "as quickly as possible to deal with this very serious matter."

Bush was not specific about what steps the international community should take. He said the United States has started talking with U.N. officials and with Arab governments about that.

"Today a serious report came out that requires the world to look at very carefully and respond accordingly," Bush said.

The United States and France are readying Security Council resolutions critical of Syria.

The Security Council, which can impose political and economic sanctions, was already scheduled to meet next Tuesday to consider the report from German prosecutor Detlev Mehlis. The U.S. mission said Friday it had no plans to call for an earlier meeting time.

Good. That'll give John Bolton time to put on his Neanderthalic game face.