[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday waffle...
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 21:26:49 -0700
Brian wrote:
> I agree with the President when he says this is an absurd
> allegation. Secretary-General Irene Khan has said "As a strategy,
> the war on terror is bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle" and
> clearly has it in for Bush when writing in the foreword that
> "Guantánamo Bay has become the gulag of our times." So much for
> Amnesty being "independent of any government, political ideology,
> economic interest or religion [and] It does not support or oppose any
> government or political system... [and] is concerned solely with the
> impartial protection of human rights." The Bush haters are a vocal lot.
> Here is Christopher Hitchens's new column that touches on this
> subject: http://slate.msn.com/id/2119392/
>
> ~Brian
>
> On May 31, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
>
>
>>In his press conference this afternoon, Bush said that Amnesty
>>International, which had condemned the US for its treatment of
>>prisoners, etc., must have been relying on 'people who've been trained
>>to disassemble.'
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I was not commenting on Bush's credibility.
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