5/4 Sudan's deputy U.N. ambassador, Omar Bashir Mohamed Manis, said
the United States had no right to accuse anyone of human
rights violations, after allegations of abuses in Iraq (news -
web sites) including mistreatment of Iraqis held in
U.S.-run prisons. Images of the Iraqi prisoners "are fresh in
the minds of all justice-loving people around the world," he
said.
\_ And how exactly would he know any justice-loving people?
\_ The difference being that in countries like his shit like that and
much worse happens everyday. When it happens here and people know
about it, it is stopped and the people doing it get jail time.
People are people but our system is infinitely superior to the
alternatives where torture is the status quo.
\_ or, in his specific case, the status quo happens to be genocide
right now. of course, since it's arabs doing the genocide
no one in the UN gives a shit, and since there's no oil involved
the bush administration doesn't give a shit. |