GOP Targets International Red Cross (for criticizing *)

[stopbush]

GOP Committee Targets International Red Cross

Senators ask Bush to reconsider financial support for the agency after its criticism of how U.S. forces treat their detainees abroad.

By Sonni Efron, Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON — 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?"

The congressional criticism follows reports by the Swiss-based group that have faulted U.S. treatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A spokeswoman at its Geneva headquarters said the organization was reviewing the report and would not comment, in accordance with its policy of keeping its dealings with governments confidential.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-redcross15jun15,0,899443.story?coll=la-home-world

[bushisanidiot]

1. Anti-Red Cross, Anti-U.N... and freeptards think God is on their side??

my gawd.. their heads couldn't be any further in the sand.

[Village Idiot]

7. Their idea is to discredit ALL international institutions...

with regard to peacekeeping and justice, human rights, etc.

They want to be seen as the only alternative - the world's policeman, etc...

It's such a friggin' JOKE, I want to cry!!!

[gratuitous]

2. Yeah, don't reconsider your support for the torturers

Reconsider your support of the people who reported on the torturers.

Is a lobotomy actually required to understand Republican "logic"?

[dkofos]

3. The truth is really starting to hurt

[IChing]

4. My son just got a full time job with the IRC in Denmark.....YEAH

This week ........ fuck congress,
Didn't the German's protest the IRC during a certain war?

[getmeouttahere]

5. Once again, when things like this come up....

which is about 20 times a day, I remind myself that about 95% or more of the world's population is on our side. Linguists could spend decades trying to come up with words to describe these human pieces of sh**

[earthboundmisfit]

6. "Are BFEE Interests Being Disserved by the International Committee of

the Red Cross?"
should be the title of the report...:mad: