IRAQ: Government calls US human rights report unfair

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/89e00dd0eac2db05edbe8f955e0bdf2c.htm

IRAQ: Government calls US human rights report unfair

BAGHDAD, 9 March (IRIN) - Iraqi officials have called a US report detailing human rights abuses in Iraq an unfair assessment of the issue, saying the report's authors should also take into account abuses perpetrated by the US military.

"The US government accused our security forces of mistreatment, torture and aggression against the Iraqi population," said Hussam Abdul-Kader, a senior official in the Ministry of Interior. "But it forgot to mention in its report the ongoing violence that they have promoted in Iraq since their invasion, including the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison."

The report, released on Wednesday, has been published annually by the US State Department since 1977, devoted to detailing alleged human rights abuses worldwide.

On the situation within the US itself, however, the report merely noted: "The United States' own journey toward liberty and justice for all has been long and difficult, and it is still far from complete. Yet over time our independent branches of government, our free media, our openness to the world, and, most importantly, the civic courage of impatient American patriots help us keep faith with our founding ideals and our international human rights obligations."

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1. Now, who could have predicted that?

Our own transgressions used against us as an excuse for other countries not to honor and respect basic human rights. I don't think anyone could have predicted that!

Of course, by "anyone" I'm talking about people either in the corrupt Bush administration or who have fewer working brain cells than Terri Schiavo.

[cantstandbush]

2. In fact, the US should be taken to the International court for war crimes

IMHO! But since when is justice in play?

[maxrandb]

3. So we "train" their forces

and then slam them on a human rights report?

I thought for a second that this had to be from the Onion.

Some stuff...you .... just .... can't .... make .... up!

[HuffleClaw]

4. welll, of COURSE its unfair.

its a travishamockery! a joke really, its like a rapist accusing a woman of sexual harrassment.