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Re: Re: Laugh of the Week: Bush is concerned about due process.
| quote: | Originally posted by Shakka
Was this in response to Amnesty International trying to compare Guantanamo to a Russian Gulag? |
Yeah, it was, which I admit their use of language was a bit overboard. Not that I don't agree with their assessment, but it just seems to me that they could have worded it a bit better in order to garner more agreement.
Regardless, it does seem this Administration only likes Amnesty when, in fact, it furthers their own cause, like here:
| quote: | ...It seems to me a careful reading of Amnesty International or the record of Saddam Hussein, having used chemical weapons on his own people as well as his neighbors, and the viciousness of that regime, which is well known and documented by human rights organizations, ought not to be surprised.
http://www.dod.gov/transcripts/2003...03_t0328sd.html |
And here:
No surprise, really.
Anyway, I thought Schulz' response to Cheney's remark of "absurdity" yesterday was pretty damn appropriate:
| quote: | Schulz responded to Cheney's comments: "It doesn't matter whether he takes Amnesty International seriously.
"He doesn't take torture seriously; he doesn't take the Geneva Convention seriously; he doesn't take due process rights seriously; and he doesn't take international law seriously.
"And that is more important than whether he takes Amnesty International seriously."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.amnestyintl/ |
And today, Bob Herbert nailed it:
| quote: | It's now known that many of the individuals swept up and confined at Guantánamo and elsewhere were innocent. The administration says it has evidence it could use to prove the guilt of detainees currently at Guantánamo, but much of the evidence is secret and therefore cannot be revealed.
This is where the war on terror meets Never-Never Land.
President Bush's close confidante, Karen Hughes, has been chosen to lead a high-profile State Department effort to repair America's image. The Bush crowd apparently thinks this is a perception problem, as opposed to a potentially catastrophic crisis that will not be eased without substantive policy changes.
This is much more than an image problem. The very idea of what it means to be American is at stake. The United States is a country that as a matter of policy (and in the name of freedom) "renders" people to regimes that specialize in the art of torture.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/30/o...Ed%2fColumnists |
What's Herbert talking about in that last paragraph? This:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/n...artner=homepage
Which our Administration completely denies, of course.
And BTW, rendition trips with Iraqi detainees is against Article 49 of the 4th Geneva Convention of 1949:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/w...anguage=printer
Which once again our Administration completely circumvents.
Seriously, Bush should really just shut the fuck up on anything involving another countries' inhumane or indescent human rights treatments. We have fucking NO credibility abroad, yet he and the rest of his Administration continue scratching their heads saying, "gosh, I wonder why they don't listen to us?"
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with leaves all crimson conquered,
I yearn to shout,
and dance about,
and stick pickles in my honker...
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