Amnesty International is propagandizing a huge anti-US slant by saying we are responsible for most of the inhumane treatment to Iraqi civilians in the war. If you want to write them go to: www.amnesty.org.uk Here's what I told them: You guys are WAY off base with your human rights assessment in Iraq. The coalition has taken every precaution to avoid hurting anybody but defiant Iraqi troops. The market bombing HAS NOT been attributed to US missles and in all likely hood is presumed to have been either an Iraqi missle misfire or diliberate action against civilians for its own propaganda purposes. Your organization is showing little intergrity by promoting lopsided, non-factual allegations against the US while ignoring the inhumane actions that the Iraqi regime has been committing against the Iraqi civilians. So far in this war the IRAQI soldiers are: -Stealing civilians food. -Using civilians as human shields. -Executing those that are unwilling to fight for the regime. This list includes killing the families of even small boys and young teenagers if the boys refuse to fight. -Dressing as civilians to confuse American and British troops further increasing chances of civilians being fired upon. -Executing coalition POW's after they indicate surrender. -Parading POW's with illegal propaganda directly contradicting all Geneva Convention agreements. -Faking surrenders so to take pop-shots at coalition troops. -Preparing to use chemical and biological weapons in the presence of civilians as indicated by the recent recovery of protection suits and antidotes found at more than one location. -Reports out of coalition POW camps indicate that AlQueda is fighting on the side of the Iraqi army in Basra. That's right, terrorists fighting on the side of the Iraqi government. -Glorifying the US tragedy of 9-11 with a murial dipicting an Iraqi airline crashing into the towers. -Dressing as American and British soldiers and executing civilians to stir up reaction with the locals. This list is ever growing. Even if there are errant bombs from the coalition, it does not even compare to the atrocities continued to be practiced by a ruthless regime. Amnesty International needs to be more careful when trying to spew unfair, ultra-liberal OPINION against the effort to ultimately relieve these people from years of brutal oppression. Your OBJECTIVE attention to future developments in this conflict will help to encourage a better Iraq for it's present and future citizens. Rethink your approach...... PLEASE!
Where was Amnesty International when Saddam was having people beaten, tortured and murdered for disagreeing with his views? Where was Amnesty International when Saddam gassed the Kurds around the time of the first Gulf War? Why wasn't a group like this trying to bring the atrocities to the world's attention?
It's obvious to me that this stance gets them more attention than an objective stance would. More attention means more money, I highly doubt they have genuine intentions.
The justification of abuses by our government being "well they do it", is sad and morally corrupt.... The US can skirt around international law and have "selective" morallity all it wants. It is a product of our hypocritical administration. We are reaping what we sow...... I pray for our troops....
The piece I responded to is gone. This one is similar but not the one from 3-28. http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140442003
Hey Biggles!! Hypocritical administration? You liberal Bush-haters are all alike! Your boy Clinton had 8 years to do something about terrorism and he sat on his fat butt and got oral sex from a 19 year old girl instead. He didn't even visit the World Trade Center after the first terrorist attack there in 1993! If Clinton were Pres right now, all the Liberals and Biggles's of the world would be singing praise on high for the current war in Iraq (assuming Clinton would have the guts to do it). Our POWs were horribly tortured and then executed, and you have the nerve to say that Bush is hypocritical because he calls that barbarism? Based on what? The Gitmo Detainees? The Geneva Convention does not apply to the Gitmo Detainees, Moron Biggles, because they are not POWs. They are what is known under the law as: Illegal Combatants. They are entitled to humane treatment, not full POW rights. You Bush-haters would love to see the USA lose this war, because then you could get the White House and Congress back in 2004!! I know you better than you know yourself, Bob.
If Clinton (or Gore) were President, there would never have been a Resolution 1441 and Saddam would be merrily stockpiling WMDs and building up his nuclear capabilities. Meanwhile, Clinton (or Gore) would still be before the U.N. Security Council attempting to drum up support for going after Osama Bin Ladin, assuming they would have figured out by now that he was behind the 9/11 attacks.
Yes.... Never accept the responsibility, It's always someone else's fault.... More body bags come home....
War is hell...but sometimes necessary. Can anyone honestly be opposed to this action now that it is obvious to all that the present Iraqui regime has absolutely no regard for human (read innocent civilian) life. They use children as shields, they use hospitals for military outposts. These guys, seriously, have got to be taken out.
