Why the owners of Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib are leaders of Human Rights? How do you accept this ambiguity?
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they are not the "leaders of Human Rights",  there is no such thing as leadership of HR. Human Rights are universal, and every human deserves to enjoy it.\n\nA leading country in the world like the USA should give better examples of Human Rights preservation and respecting Geneva Conventions. It's just another good example of power abuse.
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this man portrays himself as a dictator, like his word is everything, how can we call those who kidnap in war kidnappers, when bush calls the people we are holding,  detainees, is he not the same?\n\nthey hold people to prisoners, and we hold people prisoners, but we call what they do something else it makes americans feel like they are different then the otherside fighting for their beliefs..
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If your leaders approve of torture (I assume you're from the middle east somewhere), there's no need to explain it.  We've seen videos of beheadings, and torture carried out by your kind and most of us get the message.  My leaders don't believe in torture, but they won't back down from a fight either.  Besides if putting the screws to a militant islamic terrorist saves just one airborne ranger wouldn't it be worth it?
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The concept of "human rights" is an ideal. It's a hope for a better world, and a goal of freedom and prosperity.\n\nSadly, many countries (including the US) are diminishing or removing such rights in favor of conformity and security. They are abandoning to dream to protect themselves against the bogey-man.\n\nThe penalty for any government doing this is a forfeiture of their position. Any elected official who violates the laws of their country, especially in such a terrible manner, should lose their office. Automatically upon conviction.
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Your an idiot. We signed a peace of paper years ago saying that we would not torture people. Many countries signed the same piece of paper. We do this for many reasons, but mainly to protect our troops. Do we want others to treat our troops the way we treat them. Their are some grey area's but it is very important that we keep our promises.
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Here is something for Truth Seeker to think about. Read these Documents before you talk about them...do not believe what the Media has to say...here is my answer:\n\n1. Who cares about the U.N? it is a useless organization that could not get rid of a cold. It has no place in the world.\n\n2. There are only a few countires that follow the Laws of War. Many in your great U.N do not...i.e. Russia...what do you consider tourtue? Pouring water down someone's nose, maybe keeping them awake for a few days, stripping them naked or beheading them and putting it on the internet...get a grip, if they want to strip someone naked and pour water down their nose to keep 9/11 from happening again...I have a bucket they can use.\n\n3. How many American Citizens are kept at GITMO or in jails that were not caught in the war zone or had been told on for having something to do with terrorism? All the prisoners at GITMO are not covered under the Geneva Convention...they are illegal combatants...you have to be a uniformed soldier to have rights under the Convention and us and a few of our allies are the only one who follow it anyway.\n\n4. If fighters hide behind civilians and journalist they might be killed...so it is the terrorist's fault for getting them killed. According to the Geneva Convention you quote so much...if a hospital, ambulance, church or any other civilian building is used as a place to fight from or to hold or transport fighters, it is no longer covered... None of the weapons you mention are really out lawed...I am not sure about the white phosphorus, but the others are not...so they are not illegal...\n\n5. If a person is doing nothing wrong, then you do not have to worry about the wire tapping....but if one is calling a cell phone in Iraq then you do...we should listen in on those calls...that is where we get our intel on the terrorists.\n\n6. Please provide examples...\n\n7. Just because some people do not know how to read a ballot, and they throw out their vote...how is it anyones fault but their own? In all elections before 00 and to now have had over and under votes...sore loser Gore just brought it public...oh yea why is no one talking about Gore trying every possiable way to disqualify Absent T military voters?\n\n8. Misinformation is apart of fighting a war...always has been...do research...the chick you are talking about was a "Desk Jockey" at the time and had nothing to do with anything...just more proproganda from the Liberal Left....\n\n9. Give examples...if you are talking about the folks at GITMO, our Constitution only applies to U.S. Citizens...that is why they are in Cuba,so they can not claim the use of our Constitution...they hate Americans, but love to try to use our laws against us...\n\n10.New Orlean's mayor is just as much to blame as the Federal Government. He could have evacuated his city, he had the buses, but he chose to help the tourists first. Why is every Liberal blaming Bush for 9/11? He was only President for 8 months when it happened. Clinton was President for 8 years. He is to blame...he down sized our military and cut our budget...that is why we went to war with out the proper equipment....oh yea he is a Liberal...
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I haven't seen a whole lot of information released about the prisoners being held in Gitmo. I don't subscribe to your assumptions about the people that are being held there. I think we don't really know who they are or what their involvment with terrorism actually is. The government might know but I haven't seen any information released.\n\nI'm also not convinced that if we released them all they would have written home and told their relatives how great America is. The 'greatness' of America and the Western world is a significant part of the problem for Islamic Extremists.\n\nYour statement is, in my opinion, naive. You assume that everyone is like you. That everyone holds the same values that you do.
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there is nothing more important than freedom and human rights...NOTHING .and thats something we should all take a very close look at today in this country [usa]... "those who will trade freedom for security will end up with niether"[ pass it on]... winston churchill
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Having to answer after the rant from that other person, I'm thinking you're just looking at comparing Guantanimo to something as heinous as slavery, not that you were actually saying we were using them as slaves, YES? So reading your sentance I would say that it is the worst breach of human rights since America created Japanese Internment Camps in the 40's.  Yes JAPAN was our enemy, but not the people who had been here in the US for decades.  Yes the MIDEAST is our enemy, but that doesn't make every MIDEAST Person our enemy..  I like your analogy (well actually mine!)
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There is no universal definition of Human Rights. There should be but due to dictatorships in different countries and war etc some countries don't even care about human rights. As sad as this is it is unfortunately true.
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I don't believe we give foreign criminals unreasonable rights. We wouldn't be the country we are if we didn't give that, and if you listen to news elsewhere you would believe that Americans torture foreign criminals. I don't believe because one or more other countries are inhumane in this way that we should follow suit. Human rights are important to Americans and we even strive for them for people in other countries.
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It may not be perfect but.... If not there then where?  Let these choir boys walk?   Theses are for the most part people dedicated to killing as many Americans in particular and non-fundementalist Muslims in general as possible.\n\nA large percentage of the ones that have been released have been recaptured, killed or detained back in Iraq or Afghanistan fighting again.\n\nThe sooner the bleeding hearts crying for the release of these poor lambs realize they want to kill us, them included, by any means possible the better off we will be.\n\nTry them in our civil court system??  HA!  Look what a multi million dollar circus the Moussaoui trial has been and not near finished yet because it will be ENDLESSLY appealed.\n\nThe next time anyone starts beating their breast and whining about the detainees "civil rights" being violated, refer them to the web sites with the beheadings of the hostages in Iraq and let them see how the rights of the terrorists prisoners are respected while they kick and scream as their heads are sawed off.\n\nSo.... what do I REALLY think??  OK, nail all the cells doors shut and set the place on fire, that would do justice and shut the people up calling for release.  Detainees cases allll closed, next pleeese!
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War mentality never does make sense, but in this case, it is like you just lost two members of your immediate family, you would normally suffer a heavy grief, but if the same two people were just some mentioned in a newspaper obituary from a place your family did not live, you might feel a twinge of sympathy, but usually not much more.\n\nP.S. As was mentioned by some, the torture and death of the two soldiers, I ask you to consider this. bush made sure that any and all of the insurgents captured in this war were not considered prisoners of war (which would require humane treatment), so that the captured prisoners could be tortured during questioning, or shuttled around to holding facilities in countries who have solid records of using torture in interrogation. This President condones using anything necessary to find his enemy and that includes torture, suppression of Constitutional rights for Americans, and more. When you fight a dirty battle, expect that the other side will do the same.
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... since when does the U.S. care about other nation's human rights...\n\nunless they are looking for an excuse to attack someone...
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"The new constitution contains human rights provisions, although their practical effect had not come fully into play since most provisions depended on implementing still-ongoing legislative and institutional changes."\n\nFor a full breakdown, see here:  http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/060322/2006032221.html
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Right is right. 'Rights' are inalienable. 'Wrongs' need to be righted.\n\n'Rights' are not priviledges. They are not earned.\n\nBut, I aggree that freedom isn't free.
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Not only does every American have the right but an obligation to be outraged by the tortured & beheaded servicemen. They are not protecting anything torturing & beheading our soldiers - have you forgotten the treatment of soldiers have international laws & rules. We do not torture & behead their soldiers. Shame on you for having no patriotism. I am amazed than the same poooooor Katrina victims people say leave an entire country to the torture of Al Queda. Are you suppose to be caring compassionate people & we are the war lovers? I do not think writing off an entire country including woman & children is compassionate. At least, we are willing to stay until we can safely leave their country & their children & women are somewhat safe. Al Queda proved once again how vicious they are. We got blasted for a few renegades taking naked pictures & you will defend beheadings. Good question! No I am not President Bush, I am the mother of a United States  Army Ranger.