Aside from their constant Israel bashing and ignorance of terrorism, AI has given people another reason to not support it: Group Says Iraq War Increased Rights Abuses
Operation Iraqi Freedom added to human misery worldwide because it increased rights violations, gave despots license to treat dissidents cruelly, and kept the world from debating human rights more vigorously, Amnesty International (search) said Wednesday.
Geez…I thought getting rid of Saddam was a boost to human rights. How’d this give despots power? I put ‘em on edge, knowing they could be next.
said the worthy achievements of getting rid of Saddam Hussein and bringing freedom to Iraqi people have been tainted by the rise of violations it blames on the United States and its coalition partners
Thank you moonbats. What are said violations?
.This is a case of throwing the baby out with the Baath Party,” said William Schulz (search), executive director of Amnesty International.
That wasn’t funny at all. That’s a human rights violation.
The White House and State Department responded that Amnesty has it backwards. Exposure of the brutality of Saddam’s regime is doing more to advance the cause of human rights than years of U.N. resolutions and previous Amnesty reports ever accomplished.
The administration added that freedom from tyranny is the fundamental human right from which all others eventually flow.
“The world is rejoicing in the fact that, thanks to the efforts of the coalition, millions of people previously imprisoned are now free,” White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.
Wow! Even State is seing things clearly…you’re really wrong AI.
The administration added that Amnesty misses a key point in the war on terror — that terror groups, not nation states, pose the greatest threat to human rights. Finding and fighting terrorists where they hide is not always work that conforms neatly to the Geneva Convention.
While Amnesty charged that the Iraq war distracted from the discussion on how to improve human rights worldwide, it [Amnesty] did not offer any opinion on whether it was satisfied with Libya’s chairmanship of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. Amnesty cites Libya as a regular violator of human rights — one that routinely imprisons dissidents and tortures prisoners.
More reasons to hate Amnesty….