human rights hypocrisy?

Question

wow, could anything be more hypocritical than Bush attacking another country for human rights abuses? Has he forgotten that he runs torture camps, or is he simply too coked up to remember?

Answer 1

He hasn't forgotten and I don't think he's coked up though that would explain a lot.Under this government America seems to think they can dictate the world without the world looking to what America does itself.You're totally right and that's exactly why America and the West never should have used torture.You don't have credibility to talk about others if you do it yourself.
America failed its own standards and set the rule of law aside and will have to work hard to regain credibility.

Total disgrace was when Rumsfield said,people have to remember we're dealing with evil people here.That's what all tyrants say,Hitler and Stalin didn't torture their buddies.

Answer 2

How dare you even make that comparison? Rumour spread today that Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and pro-democracy leader of Burma was taken to Insein prison. While they probably will not dare to harm her because of her international prominence, few others in Insein are so lucky. You talk about torture? Water-boarding, sleep-deprivation; these are nothing like what is done to the political prisoners at Insein. I don't dare to describe on YA the things done daily in the hellish torture rooms inside Insein because some idiot would report me for graphic content. Look it up on the Internet if you want. When you start to compare the US's human rights record with that of a country's like Myanmar, it just shows how absolutely ignorant you are.

Answer 3

Don't forget that we (the US) have long befriended right-wing dictators who have each committed a plethora of human rights' abuses (Pinochet in Chile, Lucas Garcia and Rios Montt in Guatemala, Somoza in Nicaragua). Both parties, I'm afraid, are guilty of this hypocrisy, but that certainly does not excuse the current administration.

Answer 4

Gee, you're right. How dare that hypocritical old Bush for going all the way over there on a daily basis to run these maniacal torture camps all by himself for the sole purpose of continuing to attack a country for human rights abuses because he's such a hypocritical and dastardly man!! Bah! That *******!

Answer 5

Republicans prefer you use the term internment camp, and we have done it before. And yest Gitmo is a torture camp for those of you who refuse to see the truth for what it really is.

"February 19, 1942 President Roosevelt signed executive order 9066. Under the terms of the order, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent living in the US were removed from their homes and placed in internment camps." 2/3 of them were American citizens and 1/2 of the 2/3 were children.

And yes Gitmo is a torture camp for those of you who refuse to see the truth for what it really is. Unless you don't consider waterboarding, sleep deprivation, sexual assaults, exposure to extreme heat and cold, stobe lighting and beatings as torture.

Answer 6

Remember Maher Arar?

Answer 7

definite, yet Jimmy Carter has been retired from politics for the final 30 years. he's unfastened to talk his recommendations, as is any American secure by ability of the form. i come across hours and hours of comparable hypocrisy on AM talk radio daily.

Answer 8

I wasn't aware that Bush himself ran ANY camps. If you are referring to the pow camps which Bush has nothing to do with, name a war in which similar incidents didn't occur on either side of the combat. Grow up.

Answer 9

Wow, is right, torture CAMPS,,, plural meaning more than one, and Bush runs them. Last I checked he was in the White House, if that is a torture camp, then he is the one being tortured.

Answer 10

Maybe Bush been hanging out with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . Perhaps he believes like the Iranian president, that torture camps are a fable and never existed.