Bush Says Iraqi Police Receiving Human Rights Training

[ECH1969]

President Bush said that as part of U.S. efforts to train Iraqi police, the recruits will receive training in human rights and ethics in an effort to prevent abusive behavior.

Speaking January 23 at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, Bush said, “We've seen some problems about what it means to have lived in a society where people want to seek revenge.”

Some Iraqi police have used their status and position “to take it out on others because of past grievances,” Bush said. “That's not acceptable to the United States of America, and it's not acceptable to most Iraqis either.”

Iraqi troops will be taught how “to handle the enemy,” and their trainers will also “make sure they understand human rights and ethics involved with police work,” Bush said.

http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=January&x=20060123171655ESnamfuaK0.4771234&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html

[MercutioATC]

1. Are they gonna teach them the "Suffocate the General in the sleeping bag"

trick?

:eyes:

[Solly Mack]

2. I'm often amazed the ground beneath Bush doesn't split open

and swallow Bush up when engages in such odorous hypocrisy. It's just so insulting for this man to even say the words "human rights", much less pretend to give a damn about human rights.

[LynnTheDem]

3. Amnesty International; "Tell the Truth about Torture, Mr. President"

"Tell the Truth about Torture,
Mr. President"
Numerous allegations of torture committed by agents of the United States government have been reported since President Bush declared the "war on terror" in 2001. It's time for the torture to end. Ask the President to tell the truth about our country’s acts of torture at home and abroad when he gives his address this month.
http://www.tellthetruthabouttorture.org/site/lookup.asp?c=fgLRI3OCKnF&b=1354133&msource=sitebanner

http://www.amnestyusa.org/

USA: Undermining security – Violations of human dignity, the rule of law and ...
double standards must end –
http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/usa-summary-eng

"The USA was founded in the name of democracy, political and legal equality, and individual freedom. However, despite its claims to international leadership in the field of human rights, and its many institutions to protect individual civil liberties, the USA is failing to deliver the fundamental promise of rights for all."
-Amnesty International
http://www.rightsforall-usa.org/info/report/index.htm

United States: Reports of Torture
http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/12/us1227.htm

Human Rights Watch; USA - Torture - Abuse of Detainees - Iraq - Afghanistan
http://hrw.org/campaigns/torture.htm

Human Rights Watch Calls for Accountability
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/us0405/

USA: Torture and secret detention:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engamr511082005

USA: Guantánamo, new torture testimony released
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/16711.shtml

[HuffleClaw]

4. bwahahhaahahahaa

that is hilarious, and at the same time, truly sad. bush's hyprocisy knows no bounds.

[PDJane]

5. One needs a really black sense of humour

Or an IQ just above single digits to deal with this stuff.......

[K-W]

6. We are turning Iraq into a compassionate US dependent police state.

See its ok to committ massive crimes against humanity if you also have ethics briefings.

Its important that the death squads know exactly which human rights they are violating.

[tirechewer]

7. I wonder...

I wonder if he is going to use the CIA operatives who have been torturing prisoners teach them all that ethical compassion.

I think I want to go to the cornfield now. If this is reality, I need an alternative.:shrug: