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US Treats World as 'Giant Battlefield', Says Amnesty International
timesonline.co.uk — Amnesty International launched a scathing attack on the United States today, accusing it of trampling on human rights, and using the world as “a giant battlefield” in its War on Terror. Amnesty said that President Bush had invoked the fear of terrorism to bolster his executive power... (The report: http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGPOL100092007)
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- msillitoe, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1(Title should read "US Government Treats[etc]".)
Just wait until the "What Bush was actually doing in the days after Katrina" story breaks over there.
You'll be lynching him.
(Clue: Watch carefully the various "appearances" he made on TV, before, during and after the disaster. Notice anything strange?)
0. - Khemikl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3And this took how long to work out?
- Liam76, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2More great work by Amnesty.
Recently, the Economist, published in Britain, noted that "an organisation which devotes more pages in its annual report to human-rights abuses in Britain and America than those in Belarus and Saudi Arabia cannot expect to escape doubters' scrutiny." Other critics, including law professor at Harvard, Alan Dershowitz, and the U.S.-based Capital Research Center, have been more pointed, providing evidence of Amnesty's systematic bias and reports based largely on claims by carefully selected "eyewitnesses" in Colombia, Gaza, and Lebanon.
http://www.digg.com/politics/What_is_Amnesty_International_doing- chrisjj, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2You cannot be serious - quoting Dershowitz as if he were some authoritative figure - as Norman Finklestein has proven, Dershowitz is a complete charlatan clothed in an academic veneer.
- SpaceMonkeyZero, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1We didn't pick the battlefield. We're just fighting on it.
- caponumen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Sad, but true......
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