Iraq is failing on human rights.
By on Apr 25th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Iraq is failing on human rights.
In the two months since the Baghdad security plan was launched, approximately 3,000 people have been arrested in security sweeps. According to a new U.N. report, Iraqi authorities “failed to guarantee the basic rights” to these people, and “four million Iraqis were at risk because of lack of food.”
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iraq is failing on human rights? Get out!
April 25th, 2007 at 9:52 am(Not to mention their lack of clean water and sanitation, or the estimated 1.5 million who have been displaced or fled the country.)
April 25th, 2007 at 9:53 amWWJT
Who would Jesus Torture??
WWJS
Who would Jesus Starve
April 25th, 2007 at 9:53 amBush wants the OIL, so he could care less if Iraqis all starve to death.
April 25th, 2007 at 9:53 amQuestion: when was the last time you heard a war supporter talk about liberation and democracy in Iraq?
Early 2006?
April 25th, 2007 at 9:55 amHey, Daryll, that God of yours must be really sleep or a sick f*ck. Which one is?
April 25th, 2007 at 9:56 amI’m all worn out from Mexico City… lost again…. I need to get a haircut, and a real job…
April 25th, 2007 at 9:59 amSo Iraq is failing in human rights, just like Darfur is, right? yet Liberals want us out of Iraq and inside Darfur.
Anyone care to explain why Liberals are racist against the Iraqi people? Why do Liberals want to help the people of Darfur, but not the people of Iraq?
April 25th, 2007 at 10:09 amHeyzeus,
April 25th, 2007 at 10:10 amWelcome to the club!
If only Barbara Bush had practiced what Mexico City has approved…
They are simply following our lead. We rounded up thousands of people after 911 and some are still missing. We have hundreds of people in Guantanamo being held with no charges against them for over 5 years! We no longer have any moral authority to criticize a country for not following basic human rights principles because we don’t do it ourselves.
I weep for what we have become.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:10 amHey, Daryll, that God of yours must be really sleep or a sick f*ck. Which one is?
Comment by Juan C — April 25, 2007 @ 9:56 am
How about terrorists being the sick f…cks? Juanito. oh wait you think that these terrorist that use women and children as shields are heros and should be praised, right? my bad you sick f#ck.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:11 amThey may not have food, but they can buy Jack Daniels, at last.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:13 amValleycunt,
Gee no more sick than people like the Marines who raped and killed that family.
Or our govt hiding the tillman truth. You know to hide beind the truth to recruit more people to die for lies.
Or lying about Jessica Lynch.
Or lying over WMD’s, then killing 600,000 people who 99% were innocent.
No one here is defending the sickfucks except you (Defense of dubya)
April 25th, 2007 at 10:18 amwho cares about Iraqis at least they are keeping American Troops bogged down from creating trouble elsewhere in the world
April 25th, 2007 at 10:23 amValiantthehater, knock off the crap about ‘terrorists’. Our side bombs civilian targets too. And uses cluster bombs and land mines. Our side also uses arbitrary arrest and torture.
Guess what. It was your beloved Churchill who first advocated using poison gas on the Iraqis and aerial bombardment. And it was the USA that sold Saddam the material to make biological and chemical weapons.
Did you have a problem with the terrorists who blew up the King David Hotel in 1946? Or were they ‘freedom fighters’? Well, hold onto your White Hat, ‘thehater, it’s going to be a bumpy night. The folks in the Black Hats think we’ve overstayed our welcome. And it’s their house we’re mucking up and not ours.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:23 ammy bad you sick f#ck.
Comment by Valiantthehater — April 25, 2007 @ 10:11 am
You keep building your own ark, theologist. Ha ha ha. Freak.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:33 amJuan @ 15
You’re kidding right? These people aren’t theist of any kind. To them God is a weapon to be used, no different from their vile screams of treason.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:50 am“Why do Liberals want to help the people of Darfur, but not the people of Iraq?”
I want to help the people of Iraq – by bringing this war to a close.
A more honest question, since you obviously have a weak spot there, would be, “Why do liberals want American troops in Darfur, but not in Iraq?”
To which there is an obvious answer: having American troops in Darfur would help to stop or contain the violence, while having American troops in Iraq, obvious, does not.
For the record, I want American troops in Kurdistan, for exactly the same reason I want them in Darfur – because protective missions to keep vulnerable populations that welcome our presence from being run over by hostile forces is something we can do and do effectively, while suppressing an insurgency amongst a hostile populace and refereeing a civil are are not missions we can do.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:53 amer, make that “…refereeing a civil war are not missions we can do effectively.”
April 25th, 2007 at 10:56 amAnd we’re surprised, why……?
April 25th, 2007 at 11:13 amHey, Daryll, that God of yours must be really sleep or a sick f*ck. Which one is?
Comment by Juan C — April 25, 2007 @ 9:56 am
The war is just a test from God.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:17 amThe war is just a test from God.
Comment by Daryll
You presume to know the mind of god, Daryll?
Isn’t that blasphemy? You better hit your knees….
April 25th, 2007 at 11:25 amBushie says the sectarian violence is down since the surge —
April 25th, 2007 at 11:26 amoh, really?
The deaths of Americans has increased, and the figures of civilan deaths are not being released by the Iraqi govt. so now are we to assume that God is speaking to the boy-king and telling him the civilian casualties figure?
they’re also executing gays – for being gay… is this the democracy we had envisioned? for some consternos, I imagine that’s a wet dream…
April 25th, 2007 at 11:34 amthat’s laughable …how can one fail at human rights, when ya didn’t have any to begin with …
April 25th, 2007 at 11:40 amWWJT
Who would Jesus Torture??
WWJS
Who would Jesus Starve
Comment by Can-O-Whoop-Ass — April 25, 2007 @ 9:53 am
Jesus? Nobody. Mohammed? Everyone who disagreed with him.
“who cares about Iraqis at least they are keeping American Troops bogged down from creating trouble elsewhere in the world”
Comment by Blurpy Bardfast — April 25, 2007 @ 10:23 am
Easy there, sounds a little like criticizing the troops.
“For the record, I want American troops in Kurdistan, for exactly the same reason I want them in Darfur – because protective missions to keep vulnerable populations that welcome our presence from being run over by hostile forces is something we can do and do effectively, while suppressing an insurgency amongst a hostile populace and refereeing a civil are are not missions we can do.”
Comment by joe — April 25, 2007 @ 10:53 am
And the insurgents there are just going to throw down their weapons and walk away? They won’t keep fighting and the people there get discouraged that things didn’t work out the way they thought when the troops came in? Oddly enough, I seem to remember lots of Iraqis cheering and dancing in the streets when the regime was ousted. They were very excited about the prospects of freedom and no more people being tortured and killed by Sadaam. Well things haven’t worked out as everyone, except some extreme liberals, had hoped. The same thing could easily happen in Darfur or Kurdistan or anywhere else there are armed, crazy people who are determined to control people and deny them their freedom.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:42 amJoe,
do you know what is going on in Darfur? the Muslim majority is exterminating, literally, the Christian minority there. So if we send American troops to Darfur, guess what…..they will be fightin Muslim extremist just like they are fighting them in Iraq.
so once again, why do you want troops in Darfur and not in Iraq?
April 25th, 2007 at 11:46 amNo, valiumhater, the Darfuris are Muslims. You’re confusing the situation there with the Khartoum regime’s campaign against non-Muslims in the South during the 1990s.
Also, the janjaweed and Sudanese military that are waging the campaign are not Darfuris, but come from outside Darfur. This is not a civil war among Darfuris, but a war waged from Khartoum against a different population.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:56 amI’m all for fighting “Muslim extremists,” Vh. I just prefer to do so in an intelligent manner.
As opposed to the idiotic adventure in Iraq.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:59 amYet one more reason we need to continue our presence in Iraq. Does TP and the Libs really want them to turn into the humans rights nightmare that Iran, Syria, North Korea, Darfur, etc. is?
April 25th, 2007 at 12:01 pmWow, that was easy.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:46 pm