White House rejects human rights group charges of systematic prisoner abus

[sabra]

http://www.volunteertv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4377585

White House rejects human rights group charges of systematic prisoner abuse

WHITE HOUSE The White House is rejecting a human rights group's allegation of systematic prisoner abuse.

In its annual report, the group Human Rights Watch says the statements of administration officials have made it "disturbingly" clear that abusing detainees is a "central part" of President Bush's anti-terrorism policy.

But Press Secretary Scott McClellan says the report's based more on a "political agenda than facts."

McClellan says America does more than any other country to advance human rights -- and the focus ought to be on other countries he says are denying those rights to their people.

[marmar]

1. Because when we abuse people and strip them of their rights and dignity...

It's because our cause is just. :puke: We (collectively as America, not us on DU) have become what we supposedly hold in contempt. These are really sickening times. :cry:

[rodeodance]

2. they always reject any hint of their naughtiness. I reject!! simple.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Then where are the pictures & videos you've refused to release

even after being ordered to by the courts, Scotty?

[Arkansas Granny]

4. They will reject it until it has been proven beyond a shadow of

doubt. Then they will deny that it was any more that just a few bad apples until that becomes impossible. Then they will justify it on the grounds that 9-11 changed everything and that Saddam was much worse. Lie, lie, lie. That's all they know.

[cyberpj]

5. They reject the world's reality and substitute their own. Always. nt.

[LynnTheDem]

6. WORSE than Saddam Hussein's HRW reports. Funny thang....

the White House never rejects anything HRW says about anyone else. In fact, the bush White House likes to take HRW reports and add lotsa things to them (lies).

When it's aimed at anyone else.

[baby_mouse]

7. Large Grizzly Evacuates Bowels in Heavily Forested Area nt.

[grytpype]

8. Pope reported to be Roman Catholic, film at 11.

[chat_noir]

9. Rights Group Says Abuse Was U.S. Strategy

Human Rights Watch Says Bush Administration Weighed Abuse As Strategy for Interrogations

The Bush administration has a deliberate strategy of abusing terror suspects during interrogations, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in its annual report on the treatment of people in more than 70 countries.

The human rights group based its conclusions mostly on statements by senior administration officials in the past year, and said President Bush's reassurances that the United States does not torture suspects were deceptive and rang hollow.

"In 2005 it became disturbingly clear that the abuse of detainees had become a deliberate, central part of the Bush administration's strategy of interrogating terrorist suspects," the report said.

On a trip to Europe last month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told foreign leaders that cruel and degrading interrogation methods were forbidden for all U.S. personnel at home and abroad. She provided little detail, however, about which practices were banned and other specifics.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1517619

[lumpy]

10. Deflect Deflect Deflect

McClellan sez ".....the focus ought to be on other countries he says are denying those rights to their people". Adjust your blinders people; ignore Abu Graib, Guantanamo, secret prisons, prisoers without legal recourse, international laws......