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2005-05-28 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2005-05-28 02:42|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "...a solid, trustworthy institution loses its bearings and joins in the partisan fracas..."

Lol. Solid and trustworthy. Yewbetcha. It's interesting in two areas, IMHO. One, WaPo actually says "Bush-bashing" and "America-bashing". A small surprise there to acknowledge the favorite sport of almost all "International" NGOs and MSM outlets. Two, WaPo seems to be attempting to assert some moral authority, but it's just the pot calling the kettle black. Best I can hope for is a spittin' match where they each trash the other in front of the Kool Aid Krowd. The "gulag" is in the AI management lounge and WaPo editorial conference room. Both are purely partisan players.

Posted by .com 2005-05-28 06:52|| 2005-05-28 06:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Amnesty International - always been blind in the left eye.

Posted by Ebbavitle Glereling2593 2005-05-28 07:08|| 2005-05-28 07:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's all remember that AI has a soft spot for even the most brutal butchers of children and innocents by their unrestrained denouncation of the death penalty in many of our States. Know who they are by their friends.

Posted by Shaviling Thromotle9261 2005-05-28 08:25|| 2005-05-28 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 the organization's secretary general, Irene Khan

Posted by 2b 2005-05-28 09:18|| 2005-05-28 09:18|| Front Page Top

#5 the organization's secretary general, Irene Khan

Khaaaannnnnnnnnnn!!! It had to be said.

Posted by DMFD 2005-05-28 10:02|| 2005-05-28 10:02|| Front Page Top

#6 DMFD - This one's for you!

Posted by Raj 2005-05-28 10:41|| 2005-05-28 10:41|| Front Page Top

#7 This should have been subtitled: Wapo Looks into the Mirror and Sez: The Wedding's Off!

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-05-28 12:37|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org] 2005-05-28 12:37|| Front Page Top

#8 WaPo also says we are going to defend Newsweak until the end.

Posted by anonymous2u 2005-05-28 13:16|| 2005-05-28 13:16|| Front Page Top

#9 They could have asked someone who knows what the GULag was all about...

Posted by True German Ally 2005-05-28 13:47|| 2005-05-28 13:47|| Front Page Top

#10 This using of the word GULag to describe minor problems with treatment works in the left's favor.

They never wanted to admit their beloved USSR even had prison camps let alone an entire bureaucracy maintaining/expanding it. They makes them look like... uhm... communists.

So, folks like Khan. can srceam GULag, knowing full well the extent of the horror and hope that people think: GULag wasn't so bad. Maybe we were lied to about the USSR, which would be a lie Khan and her butt buddies would repeat ad nauseam.

This is why Khan et al need their tootsies held to the fire for saying such things. Failures to do so mean an implicit endorsement of the concept, twisted as it is. It is also why Khan needs to be linked DIRECTLY to the WaPo and Newsweak, unrelentingly.

I find it hilarious that the WaPo is horrified with such things given their out of control news magazine division. Just pee in your pants funny, and it should be said to their face.

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-05-28 14:20|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org] 2005-05-28 14:20|| Front Page Top

#11 I gotta say this and I gotta say this publically"

I used to be a memeber of Amnesty Internation 20 years ago and looking at the organization now is a little like looking at a girlfriend from 20 years ago and thinking: "I used to hose THAT??"

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-05-28 14:54|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org] 2005-05-28 14:54|| Front Page Top

#12 badanov:

Yeah, I too was a card-carrying member (literally) of AI back before Desert Storm. That seems to be the turning point when that began sliding overtly to the left (and I began regaining my political senses). It's now become a full-blown dive into the worst of anti-American madness. They've, unfortunately, completely lost their bearings and any semblance of impartiality.

Posted by xbalanke 2005-05-28 16:09|| 2005-05-28 16:09|| Front Page Top

#13 I know for a fact the most disgusting and disgraceful excuses for humans that are capable of the most depraved acts of murder and mayhem are locked up down there.
I also know that the civilized world would be done a favor if they were all dragged out and shot.
The fact that this garbage is still alive should make AI happy.

Posted by JerseyMike 2005-05-28 17:08|| 2005-05-28 17:08|| Front Page Top

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