Posted on 01/18/2005 8:09:32 PM PST by The Loan Arranger
America's human rights abuses have provided a rallying cry for terrorists and set a bad example to regimes seeking to justify their own poor rights records, a leading independent watchdog said yesterday. The torture and degrading treatment of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo Bay have undermined the credibility of the US as a defender of human rights and opponent of terrorism, the New York-based Human Rights Watch says in its annual report.
"The US government is less and less able to push for justice abroad because it is unwilling to see justice done at home," says Kenneth Roth, the group's executive director.
The report comes as the Bush administration prepares for inauguration next week. The administration has shown little interest in moderating its aggressive approach to its "global war on terror".
Yesterday's scathing report argues that the US has weakened its own moral authority at a time that authority is most needed, "in the midst of a seeming epidemic of suicide bombings, beheadings, and other attacks on civilians and noncombatants."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Whatever the whiners on the left and right might suggest, Bush has a free ticket for four years. Shut the F up. Bush can, should and will do exactly what he thinks is right no matter what you write.
"America's human rights abuses have provided a rallying cry for terrorists."
More like terrorists human rights abuses have provided a rallying cry for America. Terrorists shouldn't be afforded any rights and if we need to beat information out of them to stop the next terrorist attack, by all means do it.
Looks like the UK will be going through its own period of embarrasment over abuse photos.
Why does anyone want to post S--t from this socialist British rag.
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