systematic torture kills funds but)Hd of Joint Chiefs Reassures Uzbekistan

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-uzbek13aug13.story
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systematic torture kills funds but)Head of Joint Chiefs Reassures Uzbekistan Amid Aid Cutoff
Gen. Richard Myers says the Central Asian nation is a key ally in the fight against terrorism.
By John Hendren Times Staff Writer
August 13, 2004

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — The United States' top military officer stopped here Thursday to reassure an important Central Asian ally worried about the Bush administration's move to withhold military aid because of the slow rate of political reform.

The visit by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard B. Myers, part of a weeklong, five-nation tour of allies in the administration's campaign against terrorism, highlights the complex relationship between the United States and Uzbekistan. The U.S. counts on Uzbekistan for support in dealing with neighboring Afghanistan and the rest of the region, yet refuses to certify the former Soviet nation as qualified for about $18 million in military assistance.

"My perspective, from a military standpoint, is that Uzbekistan is enormously important for the United States. That's why I'm here," Myers said in an interview. "I was here not only to continue this maturation of this relationship but to reassure them that in fact we consider Uzbekistan an important partner."

Last fall, two years after the United States launched much of its post-Sept. 11 invasion of Afghanistan from the Karshi Khanabad base just across the Uzbek border, the State Department decertified Uzbekistan. The move was made largely at the urging of human rights groups, which charged that the Uzbek government engaged in systematic torture.<snip>

[Joanne98]

1. General Myers is PRO- TORTURE

Sent by the pro-torture WH to tell the monster, "don't worry we'll seek the money to you". We wouldn't want Bushco's new best friend to go without.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Good lord. If any "President" needed to leave office

it's one who, like Islam Karimov, has actually BOILED prisoners.
Can't you see it now, when our Cheney-face bawls into the microphone, "He BOILED HIS OWN PEOPLE." Jeezus H. Keerist.

Rumsfeld visit photos: http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/rumsfeld-in-uzbekistan.htm



Hey, how ya doin'?"

Do you think _Bush has given him his own "nickname?"

More than you will want to see of some of his torture handiwork:
http://www.thenausea.com/elements/uzbekistan/tortures.html

[mom cat]

3. Reminds me of Rummy's overtures to Saddam after the concerns

raised over his use of (our) chemical weapons. There there, don't worry. You know we don't take this human rights stuff seriously! Sarcasm off button has malfunctioned again.