[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday waffle...
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:44:11 -0400
What precisely does Amnesty have in for Bush? What do you think their
motives are in publishing their conclusions?
> [Original Message]
> From: Brian <cabrian@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 5/31/2005 11:51:49 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday waffle...
>
> 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.'
> >
> > Robert Paul
>
>
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