[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday waffle...
- From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 06:12:20 -0500
I understand. I was using the same press conference event to extend
what was said.
~Brian~
On May 31, 2005, at 11:26 PM, Robert Paul wrote:
> 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.'
>>>
> ----------------
> I was not commenting on Bush's credibility.
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