Rights Group (Amnesty) Answers Bush

[Nancy Waterman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/04/opinion/l04amnesty.html

If our reports are so "absurd," why did the administration repeatedly cite our findings about Saddam Hussein before the Iraq war? Why does it welcome our criticisms of Cuba, China and North Korea? And why does it cite our research in its own annual human rights reports?

No amount of spin can erase the myriad human rights abuses committed by United States officials in the "war on terror." The United States cannot simultaneously claim that it "promotes freedom around the world" while detaining tens of thousands at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and in Iraq and other locations without charge or trial and allowing those civilian and military officials responsible for orchestrating a systematic policy of torture to escape accountability.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Beautiful.

NGU.

[mike_c]

2. AI research will be presented as evidence at Bush's trial someday....

I hope.

[gademocrat7]

3. Amnesty International is right on the mark.

[DemExpat]

4. Perfect reply!

:thumbsup:

DemEx

[converted_democrat]

5. I love these people!!! This administration cannot have it both ways.......

[napi21]

6. Do we really have 10's of thousands imprisoned?

I've heard about Gitmo, Bagram, and some undisclosed locations, but that's a very big number! Has anyone ever heard approximate # of detainees in those locations?

[LynnTheDem]

8. 9000 just in abu Ghraib alone.

And that's a record number of people detained.

Anything Hussein did, America under bush can do better!

[napi21]

10. WOW, I didn't realize the instalation at Gitmo was that big!

n/t

[LynnTheDem]

12. It isn't.

By the way, guess who designed abu Ghraib prison.

[lady lib]

7. News flash: Amnesty shows Congress how to have backbone,

stands by their position and further challenges the Bush administration.

Whew! What a concept.

[hellbound-liberal]

9. I'm a proud member of Amnesty International and I urge you all

to join. We all may need them fighting for us someday!

[Zorra]

11. Gosh, was Bu*h "disassembling" his former opinions to, ya know,

kinda "fix the intelligence and facts around the policy?"

Or was he just "dissembling" as usual?

From the OP:

"No amount of spin can erase the myriad human rights abuses committed by United States officials in the "war on terror."

....and allowing those civilian and military officials responsible for orchestrating a systematic policy of torture to escape accountability."
:spank:

[lala_rawraw]

13. Can anyone say "Hague"? Because damn it,

Time for the Hague to step in. Perhaps we can send the Free Neocons and the Consumer Cons over as part of the over all package. As a show of faith that no more criminally insane COLLEGE Neoconics are being groomed to ruin the world. Good idea? Put a red ribbon around all of them, even include a card?

[bpilgrim]

14. "CIVILIAN and military officials" no reports have even NOTICED the civies

ah, spit looks like we got some lawyers out there in the world who have given enough rope and are now goin pull it taut.

get'm AI :toast:

peace

[oxbow]

15. Media blitz

Demand that your local media cover BOTH sides of this issue, not just the Bush-Cheney counterspin

[davekriss]

16. O my gawd

"...tens of thousands at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and in Iraq and other locations without charge or trial and allowing those civilian and military officials responsible for orchestrating a systematic policy of torture to escape accountability."

Tens of thousands? I had no idea the numbers were so high! Though we should demand cessation of illegal detention and torture of even ONE, the fact that 10,000+ human beings are impacted just shocks me.

We as a nation should be ashamed.

(But then we are a nation that allowed the School of the Americas to exist in Georgia, churning out the "free world's" most highly skilled torturers for decades...

:cry: