US report blames weak Iraq rule for abuses

[sabra]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11729949/

US report blames weak Iraq rule for abuses

The US State Department on Wednesday released a damning report on the state of human rights and the security situation in Iraq, describing a weak and corrupt government with little control over its own murderous security forces in the face of a powerful insurgency.

Contained within the department's annual global human rights report, the 50-page section on Iraq represented the Bush administration's most detailed public assessment of the gravity of the crisis.

The report appeared to be more in line with the view of the US ambassador to Baghdad, Zalmay Khalilzad, who conceded this week that the US had "opened a Pandora's box in Iraq", than Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, who accused the US and other media on Tuesday of exaggeration.

"Civic life and the social fabric remained under intense strain from the widespread violence, principally inflicted by insurgency and terrorist attacks," the report said.

[bullimiami]

1. its always someone elses fault. the buck stops over there somewhere.

of course its not the environment and example set by bushcos bloody regime and their behavior in iraq.

[Tempest]

2. Blaming the victims

This administration has no shame.

Negroponte wasn't assigned to Iraq to bring peace, that's for damn sure.

[m0nkeyneck]

3. Democracy no guarantor of rights

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/08/human.rights.report/


The report said countries in which power is concentrated in the hands of unaccountable rulers tend to be the world's most systematic human rights violators.


sounds familiar

[MadMaddie]

4. 6 years ago.....

who could have predicted the situation the US is in now...oh wait....We at DU and other Progessive sites and organizations did...

[cal04]

5. US criticises Iran, China on human rights

The US Government has singled out Iran and China as among the world's worst human rights abusers.
The criticism comes in the State Department's annual human rights report.

The report takes aim at countries the US describes as serial human rights abusers such as North Korea, Cuba, Zimbabwe and Burma. Iran is accused of offences ranging from torture and summary executions to the violation of religious freedoms.

The US says China's human rights record remains poor, with the Chinese Government violently suppressing any expression of dissent.

The report makes no mention of any human rights abuses committed by the US in places like the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, despite strong international criticism over the US military's treatment of detainees.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200603/s1587255.htm
they have got to be kidding

[NewJeffCT]

6. Pot, meet Kettle

or, however the expression goes.

[peacebird]

10. great minds.... that was gonna be my post!

LOL!

Seriously tho - what chutzpah!
:grr:
Classic.


bastards.

[Selatius]

7. Somebody forgot to tell the State Dept. to include the US as well. n/t

[HuffleClaw]

8. bwaahhhhaaaaaa

erm, they are the LAST people who should be lecturing anyone about rights.

[aquart]

9. And everybody laughed.

What is unbelievable is that humorless assumption that we have a moral highground AFTER the abu ghraib photos.

[MsKandice01]

11. Yeah, but China is financing YOUR illegal war, dumbasses

You may want to watch exactly who you're pointing those fingers at.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Yeah, back in the 1980s when El Salvador and Guatemala

held elections where the candidates all ranged from pretty right wing to extremely right wing, Reagan bragged about how "democracy had come to Central America."

Yet the death squads continued to operate for years.