GOP Committee Targets International Red Cross (gitmo & other detainees)

[Shallah Kali]

How did I miss this? I knew they were after Amnesty but I didn't know they were out to get the Red Cross!

Senators ask Bush to reconsider financial support for the agency after its criticism of how U.S. forces treat their detainees abroad.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-redcross15jun15,1,7105826.story

Senate Republicans are calling on the Bush administration to reassess U.S. financial support for the International Committee of the Red Cross, charging that the group is using American funds to lobby against U.S. interests.

The Senate Republican Policy Committee, which advances the views of the GOP Senate majority, said in a report that the international humanitarian organization had "lost its way" and veered from the impartiality on which its reputation was based. The Republican policy group titled its report: "Are American Interests Being Disserved by the International Committee of the Red Cross?"

SNIP

The Senate Republican Policy Committee, which is chaired by Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, has close ties to the Bush administration. It meets weekly to coordinate policy and often distributes "talking points" for Republican senators that are coordinated with the White House. It bills its role as helping to "shape the GOP game plan."

SNIP

The ICRC is the only organization mandated by international treaty to monitor the observance of the Geneva Convention governing the treatment of prisoners, and it has the right to visit prisoners. But the GOP report charges that the group has exceeded the bounds of its mission by trying to "reinterpret and expand international law" in favor of terrorists and insurgents; lobbying for arms-control issues that are not within its mandate, such as a ban on the use of land mines; and "inaccurately and unfairly" accusing U.S. officials of not adhering to the Geneva Convention.

[Democrats_win]

1. Subconsciously, the repubs are talking about themselves.

America under gop "leadership" has lost its way, "exceeded the bounds of its mission," and wrongly "reinterprets and expands" its authority to kill innocent people following 9/11. Every comment from the gop is "inaccurately and unfairly" presented as truth and the gop does not adhere to any sense of morality.

[Puzzler]

2. Anyone... or anything...

... that criticizes them must be taken down.

Pretty much business as usual for Bushcorp.

-P