Human Rights Group Criticizes U.S.

[corksean]

WASHINGTON (AP) - The torture of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and the treatment of those held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, dealt a blow to the United States' credibility as the world's leader on human rights and the fight against terrorism, a human rights group said Thursday.

``When most governments breach international human rights and humanitarian law, they commit a violation,'' New York-based Human Rights Watch said in its annual report of human rights developments in 60 countries.

``When a government as dominant and influential as the United States openly defies that law and seeks to justify its defiance, it also undermines the law itself and invites others to do the same.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4730816,00.html

[eleonora]

1. so, let's have international courts

take away as many international US privileges as possible. Oh wait, they won't. This world's ruled by money. :eyes:

[0007]

2. How will junior handle this report?

"The group urged the Bush administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate any U.S. officials who participated in, ordered or had command responsibility for torture or mistreatment. It also dismissed the Bush administration's claim that Abu Ghraib prisoner treatment was a problem limited to a few soldiers acting on their own.

I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe—I believe what I believe is right.
George W. Bush: 43rd President of the United States

[0007]

3. Kick

:kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::kick::bounce:

[NYC]

4. Junior will ignore it.

That's how Junior will handle this report.

[0007]

8. This will hang around like a bad smell even after he's croaked.

[NYC]

9. I'm counting on all of these things hanging around.

Imagine what the history books will look like a few decades from now when all of Bush's activities are in print in one succinct summary. Pages upon pages of what he did that was illegal, unethical, etc.

[Vidar]

5. May be ineffectual, but they at least stand up to the bastard.

[sweetheart]

6. the world learns very slowly

in all honestly, the police state, torture in american prisons,
gross invastion of privacy and a culture of abuse has been around for
some time now with the republican rise to power of the last decades
and only now is the world's media catching on.... i'm frankly unimpressed.

Duuh... tell us what we don't already know. The american regime has
been going bad for a long time now, and they've been terrible journlists
... thats the real story... incomptenet journalism... and even now,
they only scratch the surface.

[anarchy1999]

7. See this thread, killed as a "dupe"

"Not One Damn Dime Day" - Jan 20, 2005 - Inauguration Day

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1149795&mesg_id=1149795&page=

[Just Me]

10. Another facet of fascism: disdain for human rights.

Per Dr. Lawrence Britt, ",...the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need". The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc."