From GD: Cheney offended by Amnesty criticism

[smartvoter]

Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he was offended by Amnesty International's condemnation of the United States for what it called "serious human rights violations" at Guantanamo Bay...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.amnestyintl/index.html


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[Zensea]

1. He probably doesn't take these folks seriously either

http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/index.html

As long as he's in power, he won't have to do so I suppose, but there may come a day of reckoning just the same.

[undeterred]

2. Scathing...

Schulz responded to Cheney's comments: "It doesn't matter whether he takes Amnesty International seriously.

"He doesn't take torture seriously; he doesn't take the Geneva Convention seriously; he doesn't take due process rights seriously; and he doesn't take international law seriously.

"And that is more important than whether he takes Amnesty International seriously."

[sellitman]

8. Schultz can be obnoxious but he also can frame an argument with

Pin point precision.

[Radical Activist]

3. I'm offended too.

Everything Bush/Cheney are doing regarding this issue is offensive.

[sam sarrha]

4. I hope his sorry fat ass is imprisoned by it

:woohoo:

[undeterred]

6. and that whoever imprisons him shares his attitude toward

the Geneva Convention... :applause:

[magellan]

5. Cheney's mask of indignation does nothing to hide his evil soul (nt)

[imax2268]

7. Well...

gee...a man who drops the F-bomb on the senate floor is offended...?

what an asshole...

[Clarkie1]

9. Cheney shit on everything America stands for today.

"For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them seriously."

This is the nature of fascism...absolutely no questioning of the absolute good and infallibility of the state. Dissent, in other words, cannot be taken seriously.

The crap Cheney spewed out of his mouth today has provoked a visceral anger in my unlike anything I have ever felt towards this administration and it's Un-American policies and rhetoric. The fact that he spewed it on a day when we honor those who have died for the principles of freedom and dissent America stands for makes it particularly repugnant.

:grr: