Rice says: Independent investigation of detainee abuse unnecessary

[IChing]

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brushed off growing calls for an independent investigation of conditions at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and in an interview labeled as "absurd" a new Amnesty International report equating the facility with Soviet-era gulags Asked in an interview with Knight Ridder about an outside probe, Rice responded that it isn't necessary.

"The United States is as open a society as you will find," she said and the administration is being held accountable....... "by a free press,...... by a Congress that is a separate and co-equal branch of government,...... and by its own expectations of what is right."(i added the dots)

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, a close Bush ally, this week demanded an investigation of allegations that U.S. interrogators abused the Quran, the Muslim holy book, at Guantanamo Bay.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/krwashbureau/20050527/ts_krwash..

[rodeodance]

1. we are an open society Condi--expect for the WH!!

[rodeodance]

4. gee --i clicked the link but got a message saying that page

is not available.

[knowbody0]

2. if there were nothing to hide

and outside probe would find nothing.

[LoKnLoD]

3. Scumbag

She disgusts me, hope she does time with the rest of these scumbags in office. She is the biggest liar and obstructionist of the bunch.

[rodeodance]

7. condi 'indigant' at Amnesty analogy of Gitmo to Gulag

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/krwashbureau/20050527/ts_krwashbureau/_bc_rice_wa_1

Rice, a Soviet scholar by training, seemed particularly indignant at Amnesty International's calling Guantanamo Bay "the gulag of our times," a reference to the prison camps under Josef Stalin.

While the human-rights group has done important work around the world, "this is unfortunate and sad," she said. At another point in the interview, she said, "I think it's absurd language."

"The United States of America is one of the strongest defenders of human rights around the world. We've fought hard and worked hard even in the circumstances of a new kind of war (on terrorism) to treat people humanely," Rice said.

The secretary of state, while acknowledging that "sometimes bad things happen," argued that the charges of Quran abuse and other violations should be put in context.........

[Art_from_Ark]

5. Fox: Independent investigation of chicken house incidents unnecessary

Today the Fox brushed off increasing calls for independent investigations into multiple alleged incidents that happened in the chicken house under his watch, calling such allegations "ridiculous". "Look, I am being held accountable....... "by the Weasels in the press,...... by the Coyotes who are a separate and co-equal branch of chicken house overseers,...... and by my own expectations of what is right."

[rodeodance]

8. tee hee, that was good

[pnorman]

10. I LOVE that,

and may plagiarize it in some form or other.

pnorman

[IChing]

11. i llked that too

:bounce:

[punpirate]

6. "The United States is as open a society as you will find,"

This from a representative of that government, which even conservatives are admitting is the most secretive in the country's history.

They stonewall Congress and independent commissions on evidence, they do everything possible to cow and intimidate the press and the dissenting public, and then, she has the utter fucking temerity to say, "by its own expectations of what is right."

In other words, the government decides what's right, and you pissants are in our way.

Doesn't sound like any open society I've ever heard of. Same name, different country, methinks.

[GreenArrow]

9. Of course!

It's always a good idea to take the word of confirmed and incorrigible liars.

[ladjf]

12. Oh well, in that case, let's just forget about it. Condi, your word

is good enough for me. (not)

[snowbear]

13. Someday your day will come Condi...

When you meet with W :evilgrin:, Kenny Boy :evilgrin: Bolton :evilgrin: , Cheney :evilgrin: , Lynne :evilgrin: , DeLay :evilgrin: Frist :evilgrin:, Scotty McLiar :evilgrin: , Sanchez :evilgrin: and the rest of the crooks.. Unfortunately you won't enjoy yourselves... you'll be paying for your continual sins in HELL! :nuke:

[wildwww2]

14. Sure Condi wouldn`t want to look were Clinton`s penis is not at.

Bu$h Inc. cannot be investigated for what they screw. That would be like doing their jobs. Can`t have that.
Peace
Wildman
Al Gore is My President

[angka]

15. the "free press" line is especially rich.

after watching every news channel shamelessly running cover for the administration for weeks now, agreeing that Newsweek "needs to do more" -- more what? more propaganda? more lying?

straight-up criminals.