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From BBC News Online:
The US has admitted for the first time that it has not given the Red Cross access to all detainees in its custody.
The state department's top legal adviser, John Bellinger, made the admission but gave no details about where such prisoners were held.
The US administration has long been careful in its language, to provide semantic 'proof' that can be pointed to should it ever be accused of lying. But if that's about the only guarantee US citizens have that its government isn't trampling most of the principles for which the country has fought for over 200 years, well, that's not a very good guarantee.
Call me naive, but for the most part I believe that Bush and co. are genuine in many of their beliefs. But then, some parents beileve you should beat children to get them to stop wetting their beds.
The US has admitted for the first time that it has not given the Red Cross access to all detainees in its custody.
The state department's top legal adviser, John Bellinger, made the admission but gave no details about where such prisoners were held.
The US administration has long been careful in its language, to provide semantic 'proof' that can be pointed to should it ever be accused of lying. But if that's about the only guarantee US citizens have that its government isn't trampling most of the principles for which the country has fought for over 200 years, well, that's not a very good guarantee.
Call me naive, but for the most part I believe that Bush and co. are genuine in many of their beliefs. But then, some parents beileve you should beat children to get them to stop wetting their beds.
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BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!
timmmmmmmmmmmmmmay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
I believe his re-election mourned people whose yearning for world peace!
Unfortunately a lot of people believe, as does Bush, that America and Americans are under threat, and so they don't think he's done anything "wrong." and only now are we getting to gthe point when a majority of people mioght admit that he's doing it poorly.
unfortunately trust is something it takes years, decades, to develop, and only seconds to destroy. unfortunately this simple truth is one that no one in our government remembered back in 2002.
i don't think anybody knows what comes next. unfortunately afghanistan post-1979 looks to me the model, unless the rest of the global community somehow becomes a) willing and b) welcome to assist in setting the country on its feet again. and even then...
ok, plenty of reading to do, bye bye......!!!!