The Disassembler in Chief and the War of Error

[dweller]

by John Atcheson

If you want to see exhibit A in how the administration and their conservative henchmen manage to spin the press,
check out the imbroglio over Amnesty International’s 2005 Report, which accuses the US of "atrocious human rights
violations" and says in it’s forward,"When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law
and human rights, it grants a license to others to commit abuse with impunity and audacity."

A Secretary General Irene Khan, in releasing the report, referred to Guantanamo Bay as "the gulag of our times..."

Now, accusations such as these, delivered by a respected and venerable organization such as Amnesty
International are serious business.

So how did the administration and the conservative spin machine respond? Call for immediate impartial
investigations? Reaffirm the US commitment to the Rule of Law? Denounce practices which violate human rights?

Of course not.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0609-28.htm

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[TahitiNut]

1. "USA; USA: Say it loud, say it proud; we’re not the worst!"

We're now using standards that're at sewage level. We don't actually have to live up to any standard -- all we have to do is kick the shit out of anyone who dares criticize us. We've become a nation of schoolyard bullies.