[jimbob]

[sarcasm] Right, because as we all know, UN departments and functions are never commandeered for politically motivated reasons, and are always neutral in their approach to all situations. There are of course no countries or NGO's out there that will wield a UN body to go after the USA simply because it's big, powerful, wealthy, or the Great Satan - regardless of the purpose of the UN body in question. [/sarcasm]

This may well indeed go a long ways to explaining why the US does not want to be under the authority of an international court. What keeps countries like Iraq (before GWII) from innundating the court with baseless charges against the US, while they have an incredibly bad record themselves? Unlike the Iraqi leadership, the world would actually expect that the US leadership would show up for their court dates - but would have no such expectation of the Tin Pot Dictators of this world - yet another double standard that the US (rightly IMHO) simply is not willing to endure.

Hey, them's my thoughts on it anyway.
jimbob