Rice wants North Korea's human rights abuses highlighted

[Judi Lynn]

Rice wants North Korea's human rights abuses highlighted

September 07, 2005, 09:09 gmt


Condoleezza Rice
© AFP/Getty Images/File Alex Wong
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted human rights abuses in North Korea should be highlighted, ignoring the risk of angering the Stalinist regime which has delayed talks designed to end its nuclear weapons drive. Rice said a newly named US human rights envoy for North Korea would raise the profile of the human rights situation in the reclusive state and help look into ways of cooperating with other countries to deal with the problem.

She spoke to reporters before receiving the envoy, Jay Lefkowitz, at her office following his nomination by US President George W. Bush last month.

Lefkowitz "will have an opportunity to raise the profile of these issues and to see what we can do with the rest of the world to improve the humanitarian situation for the people of North Korea and the human rights conditions there," Rice said.

President Bush wanted "people all over the world to (have the) right to live in dignity, to have human rights respected, to have brighter futures," she said. "We believe the people of North Korea to be no different."
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[Luna_Chick]

1. While we're on the subject of human rights abuses..

when can we expect a direct answer to the questions on what the fuck happened to those poor souls in LA and MI??

[saigon68]

10. She's too busy to worry about a few thousand dead black people

[noonwitch]

20. Mississippi is MS, Michigan is MI

We're pretty comfortable up here in Michigan. We may have one of the poorest cities in the nation, and the highest unemployment rate, but we are taking in a few thousand evacuees.

Although, to quote Clancy Wiggums "We have a saying around here-let Michigan handle it".
That's not as funny as you might think. We take in everybody, from Laotian refugees evacuated by the Christian Reformed Church to runaway kids from Chicago whose parents don't want them back and whom the state of IL won't take back. But that's okay, we are good people who do the right thing.

[Luna_Chick]

31. Sorry, I was running on empty

3 hours of sleep on top of 8 hours of work and 4 hour of class.

[AlamoDemoc]

2. Oh dear!

I doubt I will be the first to say STFU Condi...and fix what is wrong with America....others will be quick to point out

[fooj]

3. This is insane.

:argh:

[coyote]

4. Oh the irony!

I can´t take this shit anymore.

[texanwitch]

5. The question is to we laugh or cry. These people have no shame.

[Neshanic]

6. She needs Prada hip boots to wade through her own crap

[Supersedeas]

19. shoes....shoes...shoes ain't all she needs

[roguevalley]

7. I bet she does. Then she better address the atrocity of wearing

white shoes after labor day.

[Lochloosa]

32. I checked your profile just to see what your gender was...

undeclared...:rofl:

[bliss_eternal]

8. I'm trying really hard to not hate this woman...reports like this

aren't helping my efforts.

:grr:

[PaulaFarrell]

9. Just imagine what she'd be saying if some country had penned

tens of thousands of people into a couple of places with no food, no water, no sanitation, and wouldn't let them leave for days, even though some were dying from dehydration. I mean, that would defintely be a violation of human rights, wouldn't it?

[pretzel4gore]

11. she shits in public

what a despicable creature

[malaise]

12. That's a euphemism n/t

[pretzel4gore]

21. what did Blake say?

That's William, of course
"contempt is to the contemptable as the air to birds or the sea to fishes"
it's a pity crudity is now preferable to throwing up hands and retiring to crossword puzzles, aint it?

[unhappycamper]

13. Humanitarian efforts should start at home.

She's a cappo in the Perpetual War gang.

[ninkasi]

14. Apparently unafraid

of being blasted by a bolt of lightening from Heaven, and being dragged by her master, Lucifer, into hell where she belongs, she made the following statement...

"President Bush wanted "people all over the world to (have the) right to live in dignity, to have human rights respected, to have brighter futures," she said."

The most notable exceptions are the poor, especially the black poor, caught in the hell of New Orleans, shot as looters for daring to take food or water from stores, locked into a festering, filthy Superdome without food, water, medicine, or sewer facilities; left to die in attics filled with toxic water; and...all the while...turning away countless numbers of humanitarian workers, denied entry into the city.

North Korea, as brutal as their regime is, did not run Abu Ghraib, or Gitmo, and is not responsible for "rendering" suspected terrorists to other countries to be tortured. Nor did the leader of North Korea order hundreds of thousands of our men and women into a war of choice in Iraq, causing loss of life and horrific injuries on both sides.

For an administration which has proceeded to strip away our own freedoms, while arrogantly stomping an already suffering Iraq even further into poverty and desperation, it takes something akin to a complete psychotic break to be able to make such pronouncements. Ask the people of our Gulf Coast, who are still finding bodies abandoned by the Bush administration and it's complete contempt for human life.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. Go fuck yourself Imelda! n/t

[antonialee839]

16. What Irony!!

[0007]

17. What marbles this women had are all gone. The timing

is as bad as the rhetoric, when her brothers & sisters are suffering in NO.

[Art_from_Ark]

37. And she's supposed to be the SMART one???

:crazy:

[leesa]

18. Really! Where are the torture photos from Iraq?

The US has no credibility.

[Pithy Cherub]

22. Code Blue: Irony has jumped the shark...

:crazy:

[daninthemoon]

23. North Koreak should ask for investigation of Abu Garaib, Guntanamo,

and especially New Orleans.

[katinmn]

24. Hyper-crite

I can't stand this administration anymore.

:grr:

[Endangered Specie]

25. Textbook example of the Pot calling the kettle black.

[peacetalksforall]

26. Ferragamo Condi suffers from an eye ailment - she can see abuses

on the other side of the world, but not up close.

Cheney - you ms-calculated with ms rice.

There isn't anyone with common sense and a sense of patriotism who can respect or believe her.

She is a more evil female than the females who reigned in power from the time of Empress Theodoro through the Madames of WW2 and the Cold War.

Did she make herself into this or did she allow herself to be made into this?

Condaleeza ... who tried her best to destroy the U.S., but was discovered and stopped by the citizens.

[Spazito]

27. The answer should be: When you release the audio and photographs

from Abu Graib, we'll talk.

[TOhioLiberal]

28. What about OUR human rights abuses...

...you worthless piece of pond scum! :grr: :banghead:

[StrafingMoose]

29. Why not doing the same with China chickensh*t Rice?

You know, that country that holds Western economies in the palm of its hand?

[nodehopper]

34. to be fair, objectively, China today is an Athens democracy compared to NK

but that aside, oh the hypocricy!

[StrafingMoose]

35. true, they don't have gullags...

(if those NK sattelite pictures were ever true)

[The Sleeper]

30. "I reiterate, The United States.....

".....will not take a back seat to North Korea when it comes to human rights......violations."

sincerely,
Condi Rice

[Jamastiene]

33. Ain't that just your typical example of the pot calling the kettle...

well, you know the rest. So Rice want's to concentrate on human rights abuses elsewhere to take attention away from her man, Bush, not to mention her own part in his horrid administration. She needs to look in the mirror...Look who's talking. I'm with Whoopi Goldberg on Rice. She's gotta be screwing Bush to stick her neck out that much for him.

[restorefreedom]

36. That's rich. n/t

[all.of.me]

38. and north korea wants our human rights abuses highlighted.

so there, condi. and bush. and cheney. and rummy. and fema. and and and

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Pot wants Kettle called black.

How could anyone take us seriously with gripes of human rights abuses after Abu Graib, Guantanamo, and Katrina?

[daleo]

40. That mote in your eye, Condi...

You should have that looked at.

On edit - Now that I look harder, it might be a beam.

[Carla in Ca]

41. Today Randi Rhodes asked...

What is the difference between Condi and her shoes.

The answer: shoes have soles.

[Erika]

42. Agreed

Condi is another that should have never been in this fluke of a presidency. She's shameful and as arrogant as her boss.