US delays human rights report because it might "make us look hypocritical"

NNN0LHI

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Tue May-04-04 12:51 PM
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US delays human rights report because it might "make us look hypocritical"

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040504/pl_nm/iraq_abuse_delay_dc&cid=615&ncid=1473

US Delays Rights Report Partly Due to Iraq Scandal

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The State Department plans to delay the release of a human rights report due out on Wednesday partly because of sensitivities over the U.S. prison abuse scandal in Iraq, U.S. officials said.

One official who asked not to be identified said the release of the report, which describes actions taken by the U.S. government to encourage respect for human rights by other nations, could "make us look hypocritical."

The officials said the report, "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2003-2004," was not ready to be sent to Congress and therefore could not be made public as planned.

But they said the scandal over abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where photographs have shown naked Iraqi prisoners stacked in a pyramid and positioned to simulate sex acts, had played a role in the decision to delay the release.

Asked which of the two reasons explained the delay of the report, one official said: "Both."

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bobbieinok

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Tue May-04-04 12:53 PM
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1. could? - could?? - could??? 'make us look hypocritical'

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tandot

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Tue May-04-04 12:55 PM
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2. "Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record..." LMAO

Edited on Tue May-04-04 12:58 PM by tandot

"supporting human rights"??? That must be the shortest report ever.

on edit: On the other hand, if the reports cites all the abuses, it might be a very, very long report.

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troublemaker

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Tue May-04-04 01:12 PM
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3. Too funny! Kick this. n/t

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gratuitous

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Tue May-04-04 01:16 PM
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4. Tell that one again?

You know, the joke about how Bush is restoring honor and integritude to the Oval Office? That one always cracks me up!

It's very, very wrong to get a blowjob (unless you're the CEO of Sinclair Broadcasting), but torturing and humiliating prisoners, bombing the shit out of people who can't shoot back and can't get away, and lying about the whole thing is honorable.

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Mandate My Ass

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Tue May-04-04 01:20 PM
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5. Do as I say not as I do

That has always been the unapologetic motto and the M.O. of this administration.

Since when did they get self conscious about it? :shrug:

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