Iraqis dismiss Bush Abu Ghraib plan




I suppose I'll get some flak for linking to Al Jazeera, but who better to speak for the opposition?

from Al Jazeera:

Ahmad Hasan al-Uqaili, deputy chief of the Human Rights Organisation in Iraq, dismissed Bush's promise [to demolish the prison] as a Republican ploy "to win the [presidential] election in the United States".

Al-Uqaili said the most important thing was to end the abuses committed in the prison by both Saddam's regime and the US guards.

"The problem is not changing the location or the name of the prison," he said.

"It's about the staff of the prison. Those people are supposed to be trained in human rights. Even if a person is a prisoner, he is a human being first who must be treated with respect and dignity."

I couldn't have said it better myself. Are the American people the only ones who are being fooled by Bush?

Posted: Thu - June 3, 2004 at 12:28 AM          

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