Posted on 05/25/2005 4:44:37 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
A. Four. Just because you call a dog's tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Just because you call Gitmo a "gulag" doesn't make it a gulag.
Bill O'Reilly going after AI right now. Fairly good "Talking Points" segment.
I think that we are being mightily bullshat by the left again.
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and Amnesty Interantional has accomplished what ?
Next to half the Arab world Gitmo is Disneyland .
Actually, your sister. :-)
Who is Amnesty International?
If these guys are released, they will go back to killing civilians and plotting against the United States. That would be a great victory for human rights, wouldn't it? There's a war on, these guys are prisoners of that war, and when the war is over, they'll be released.
Amnesty International complains about the U.S. because the U.S. is the only country where someone might actually take them seriously. Their pronouncements, as they well know, have absolutely no effect in the real tyrannies of the World.
Apart from the chain link fences and the razor wire, the prisoners in Guantanamo are living better than they were when they were waging "Jihad".
I just heard a William Schultz on CSpan, an arrogant elitist prissy AH to be sure. The terrorist would really have fun with him!
Amnesty International probably does a decent job reporting serious human rights violations.
But the fact is they go way overboard in damning the USA and its allies (especially Israel). Their disdain of Bush and the WOT is evident. AI stated in Nov 2001 the WTC attacks were a matter for international courts, and NOT a military response. AI basically tried to rationalize the actions of the 19 hijackers.
That creates a serious credibility gap, especially for those of us who watched American citizens jumping from the 104th floor that awful day.
Was it a few weeks ago AI was only partially critical of the Palestinians, pointing out they should NOT use children for the suicide attacks on Israel? Duh.
Again, a credibility issue. If AI truly sought to point out human rights violations, it would have lambasted suicide bombers in general.
But what sells and what gets donations is laying out the USA. Using deliberate inflammatory descriptions such as GULAG is just over the top rhetoric. It doesn't pass the smell test.
Again, the credibility issue.
AI needs to separate legitimate military prison operations from REAL human rights violations (like ACTUAL gulags and state-run torture chambers). Any prison system that provides 3 meals, religious observations, medical treatment, and clean living quarters is a damn sight better than a gulag.
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