Administration Was For Amnesty International Before It Was Against It

http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=979


Tonight, Vice President Cheney will appear on CNN’s Larry King Live and reportedly condemn a recent Amnesty International report that faults the U.S. for its treatment of detainees in the war on terror. Cheney has said:

For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don’t take them seriously.

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But in the past, when it was convenient to the Administration, they did not hesitate to cite Amnesty to make its case. And nowhere did the Administration need more help than in selling the Iraq war. Secretary Rumsfeld repeatedly turned to Amnesty to highlight the repressive nature of Saddam’s regime....

<On March 28, 2003,> Rumsfeld even cited his "careful reading" of Amnesty:

…<I>t seems to me a careful reading of Amnesty International or the record of Saddam Hussein, having used chemical weapons on his own people as well as his neighbors, and the viciousness of that regime, which is well known and documented by human rights organizations, ought not to be surprised.

whichever way president cheney say

say that shit without dissolving into spasms of laughter/spontaneously combusting/being hit by a bolt of lightening.

1. Hey Rummy, any idea when the US Government plans to remove the still-online CIA, Pentagon, US Marine Corps, US State Department, and DIA reports citing IRAN for "gassing the Kurds"?

2. So Rummy, when will you be reading out the AI reports on the KURDS? When will you mention the fact that more Kurds have been killed by KURDS than the number killed by Turkey, Iran, and Hussein combined?

3. When will you point out the 3 decades long civil war between the Kurds, with current "President" Talabani on one side, and Barzani on the other?

4. When will you point out the fact that Talabani was a good ally of Hussein,s and (much like you, Rummy) even appeared on Baghdad telly to kiss and hug Saddam...AFTER the first Gulf war?

5. When will you point out the fact that the other Kurdish leader, Barzani, was also a good ally of Hussein's and asked, and received, help from Hussein in 1996 in Barzani's fight against Talabani?

6. When will you point out the TRUTH about that "300,000 mass graved" bullshit? When will you point out where that number originated and to what it actually referred to?

7. When will you, as bLiar already did, admit that you have not "already found hundreds of thousands in those mass graves"?

8. When will you remind Americans of what you & your fellow sick little bastards said in 1991 when you called the uprisings and putting down of same as "nothing to do with us" and "not our business" and "I'm not sure whose side you'd want to be on," and that Shia and Kurd "success was not a goal for the administration"?

9. When will you explain this?

"The only issue that came up is, "Should we do something about the Iraqi helicopters?" It had never been one of our objectives to get involved in this kind of civil uprising between factions within Iraq and the Iraqi government. And so it was not clear what purpose would have been achieved by getting ourselves mixed up in the middle of that."

10. When will you explain, Rummy, why you never gave a shit about the Iraqi people when atrocities were actually happening, yet suddenly, years later, you give a shit about atrocities that happened years ago and when NO atrocities had happened in the years since?

And by the way, Rummy, you don't seem to give much of a shit about the 100,000+ dead Iraqis, killed by you and your bush-boy's bullshit, Rummy.

When ya gonna explain that, Rummy?

Say it is not so. I am shocked, shocked I say! :sarcasm:

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