Red Cross hits back at U.S. Republican critic

[Stockholm]

GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hit back at a U.S. Republican report which questioned its impartiality, dismissing the accusations as false and unsubstantiated.

ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger vowed the Swiss-based agency would stick to its principles of neutrality and expressed confidence the United States would remain its top donor.

A policy adviser for the U.S. Senate Republican majority said this week the ICRC had lost its impartiality and was advocating positions at odds with U.S. interests.

"The paper's purpose appears to be to discredit the ICRC by putting forward false allegations and unsubstantiated accusations," Kellenberger told a news briefing.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2005-06-17T110613Z_01_N1756235_RTRIDST_0_POLITICS-USA-REDCROSS-DC.XML

IMO more ignoring than hitting back? :shrug:

[RalphReedsWreckedEm]

1. God help us....

Only God can help us when the U.S. begins calling the ICRC a "liberal" organization with a political agenda.

What's next?

Limbaugh slandering Mother Teresa as a "ultra liberal welfare queen?"

[Jackpine Radical]

16. Well, she WAS, you know--

and an enabler to boot.

[MurrayDelph]

18. Of course the Red Cross is a Liberal organization:

It believes in helping all the poor, sick, down-trodden, and wounded,
without regard to who they are and how they got that way.

Can't get more liberal than that; it sure as hell ain't Republican
values!

[iamjoy]

2. There Is No Such Thing As Impartiality

In the war on terror, we won't allow anyone to be neutral. If they are not advocating our position, they are against us.

at least, that is what many Republicans think

[marbuc]

11. They have said as much

with their "with us or against us" rants.

[whosinpower]

3. The Red Cross has not changed

snip - policy adviser for the U.S. Senate Republican majority said this week the ICRC had lost its impartiality and was advocating positions at odds with U.S. interests.


The Red Cross has not changed its position....it is the US that has. And THAT is a sad story when the US attacks the Red Cross for being at odds with its interests.

[LynnTheDem]

4. Ummmm....

"lost its impartiality and was advocating positions at odds with US interests"

So they're impartial if they DO advocate positions not in odds with US interests...and they lose their impartiality if they advocate positions at odds with US interests???

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Exactly what I was thinking

I think the Senator needs to review the meaning of "neutral." But then, I guess Americans have been fooled into thinking that we're just the "good guys minding our own business" - so we're the neutral ones!

[Warren Stupidity]

6. just more blame the messenger not the message bullshit nt

[cthrumatrix]

7. anyone who dear speak the truth to "corruption" is attacked

[Supersedeas]

8. Stand up ICRC STAND UP....and humanity stands with YOU

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[Double T]

10. Republican Denials Are Wearing Thin When The Blatant Truth......

is staring us right in the face.

[Supersedeas]

12. Amen....so to speak

[magellan]

13. The Empire flexes its muscles again

(The Republican Policy Committee report) accused the ICRC of reinterpreting international law "so as to afford terrorists and insurgents the same rights and privileges as the military personnel of countries like the United States, who have signed the Geneva Conventions."

Well, the US reinterpreted international law and launched a pre-emptive war in Iraq. And ask any of the "terrorists and insurgents" who've been released from our detention centers without charge, after two or three years, if they were treated according to the Geneva Conventions. I've read their stories in the British and Canadian press (as several of them happen to be British and Canadian citizens)...The emotional and physical abuse they endured is horrifying. If that's how we treat the innocent ones....

The #1 threat to US national security? BUSHCO AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

[mbperrin]

14. Dan Fata or Dumb Fatwah?

I can't quite make out the idiot's name who wrote the report!

[strizi64]

15. AI, Red Cross, who's next?

regards from Switzerland, we did never ever buy a single lie from BushCo..... Like most of Europe & most of the whole World.....

[confludemocrat]

17. Not even the Nazis went after the CICR, they would envy Repubs.

Don't forget what lowlife scum Republicans are and those who support them. They specialize at diversion backed by distortion and lying.

[Chauga]

19. These pukes have no shame, not to mention no clue.

[Deja Q]

20. The RC is a humanitarian organization. If that's at odd with the US...

then the US's interests must be inhumanitarian...

God help us all indeed.