[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday waffle...

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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