If Cheney say it Did Not Happen, then It Must Be True.

Writing by on Monday, 30 of May , 2005 at 10:43 pm

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Is it just me or does this administration pride itself from governing in a paper bag? We have the President going out of his way to dismiss evidence on everything from evolution, global warming, and stem cell research, replacing the facts with nothing more than rumor and misguided opinion. Dick Cheney that he too has joined the "Hear no Evil, See No Evil, and Speak No Evil" Administration.

So Cheney went of the super soft ball "Larry King Live" that will come on tonight and here is what he said…

For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don’t take them seriously.

If you call last week Amnesty International released a scathing report, that says that the United States has lowered the bar on Human Rights. As we race to the bottom, those we have always chastised for there human rights issues have dismissed us, basically saying, "You set the standards, so get off our ass".

CNN has more to this story.

Amnesty International was scathing last week in its criticism of the way the United States has run the detention center at its naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

“We have documented that the U.S. government is a leading purveyor and practitioner of the odious human rights violation,” William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said Wednesday.

Cheney denied American wrongdoing at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, which Amnesty International compared to a “gulag.”

“Guantanamo’s been operated, I think, in a very sane and sound fashion by the U.S. military. … I think these people have been well treated, treated humanely and decently,” Cheney said. “Occasionally there are allegations of mistreatment.

“But if you trace those back, in nearly every case, it turns out to come from somebody who has been inside and been released … to their home country and now are peddling lies about how they were treated.”

Schulz responded to Cheney’s comments: “It doesn’t matter whether he takes Amnesty International seriously.

“He doesn’t take torture seriously; he doesn’t take the Geneva Convention seriously; he doesn’t take due process rights seriously; and he doesn’t take international law seriously.

“And that is more important than whether he takes Amnesty International seriously.”

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