June 02, 2005
Gee-Dub: Most...Entertaining...President...Ever
It seemed like [Amnesty International] based some of their decisions on the word and allegations by people who were held in detention, people who hate America, people had been trained in some instances to disassemble (sic) -- that means not tell the truth. And so it was an absurd report. It just is.
Ah, Dubya schooling others on proper use of the English language -- and mangling it while doing so. Nothin' could be finer! Here's your idea for the next great hit teevee show: George W., Dan "Potatoe" Quayle, and a chimpanzee face off in a weekly Scrabble match.
As far as AI's report is concerned, Amnesty's rejoinder to the Bush Administration's aghast response will, presumably, not see the light of day: "The administration's response has been that our report is absurd, that our allegations have no basis, and our answer is very simple: if that is so, open up these detention centers, allow us and others to visit them."
Actually, though, the Administration's outrage -- denunciations from Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Myers, and Rice -- is as fine a testament as any to the esteem in which Amnesty's work is held.
Interestingly, at least one reaction appears to accept Amnesty's conclusions while villifying the messenger:
[Lee] Casey and [Dave] Rivkin said they were incensed at the suggestion by the head of Amnesty's U.S. section, William Schulz, that Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S. officials who had a role in authorizing abusive interrogation practices should be prosecuted in foreign jurisdictions for violations of the Geneva and torture conventions committed against detainees if the administration continued to reject calls by human rights and lawyers' groups for an independent investigation.In their view, Amnesty, ''is trapped in a 20th-century mindset where the greatest threat to individual life and liberty stemmed from the actions of sovereign governments. That is simply no longer the case.'' NGOs, they added, ''simply do not consider that the defense of the American population, and the vindication of each individual's right to live without the threat or actuality of terrorist attack, is their problem -- and it is time they did.''
The competition is keen, but when it gets down to crunch time, Dubya is still the reigning doublethink champeen:
"We expect all our friends, as well as those who aren't our friends, to honor human rights and protect minority rights." [...]Speaking a few hours after former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was sentenced to nine years in prison after a trial that many democratic activists called politically motivated, Bush said he has expressed concerns about the legal proceedings to President Vladimir Putin and will watch the appeals process closely. "Here, you are innocent until proven guilty, and it appeared to us, at least people in my administration, that it looked like he had been judged guilty prior to having a fair trial," Bush said.
Posted by Eddie Tews at June 2, 2005 08:32 PM
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I hate you soooo much it makes me want to kill myself just to get away from you. I can't believe I just wasted 6 minutes of my life reading this liberal GARBAGE. NOBODY LIKES YOU AND NOBODY CARES -- Posted by: Dwayne on July 7, 2005 10:01 PM