Reply #28: No one said he was good. The poster was just pointing out that [View All]

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what they knew was from the MSM.

AI - I believe is not part of the MSM. Their material is often used in asylum cases (where a person asks for asylum in the US due to persecution in their own country). They generally have extensive records of the human rights abuses of other countries (don't know if they are doing one for the US now, that would be interesting.)

Many other countries engage in human rights abuses, to the point where we cannot attack them all with the military. The reasons for choosing Iraq clearly have little if nothing to do with Saddam's human rights abuses. Though one can see the BFEE using it as a sop to the "bleeding heart liberals." If they were sincere, I might even be supportive. If they really claimed that attacking Iraq would get other countries to learn a lesson (clean up your human rights record or be attacked), it might fly with me. Though to have credibility with that, there would have to be no supporting of any other regime committing human rights abuses, and we know we don't have that situation.