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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bearshark who wrote (15564)	10/16/2002 3:34:43 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

. We simply cannot allow it to return to Taliban and Al Quaeda rule. I think it would take years for the Taliban to return to power, after years of tribal wars. Then we could just go to war again. The money might as well go to Defense contractors instead of Afghanistan. Sarcasm or realism? ------------------ The State Department on Wednesday urged the European Union to move toward membership for Turkey as soon as possible. ........ newsday.com ------------------ ....But perhaps the touchiest step was the EU's rebuff, once again, of Turkey, despite heavy U.S. pressure to advance the Turks' 15-year-old application for admission. As a member of NATO and a secular Muslim state bordering Iraq and Iran, Turkey is a critical ally for Washington, which wants to see the country pulled more firmly into the Western fold. The EU commission sharpened the snub to Turkey by approving the inclusion by 2004 of other Mediterranean states, Malta and Cyprus - and by suggesting that Turkey's Balkan neighbors, Romania and Bulgaria, might be able to join by 2007. In rejecting Turkey, the commission said the government there still fails to respect human rights. In particular, Turkey has been condemned for its repression of its ethnic Kurdish minority... newsday.com ------------------ Ten policemen were convicted in Turkey on Wednesday of torturing teenagers for putting up leftist posters and sentenced to a minimum five years in prison. ..... ...The case began when 15 leftist activists were arrested in 1995 for putting up political posters on walls in Manisa, 30 miles east of the Aegean port of Izmir. Their ages ranged from 14 to 18. Defense lawyers said their clients were stripped naked, beaten, subjected to electric shocks, hosed down with pressurized water and sexually abused. newsday.com -------------------- Then there's Mexico, which has a pretty abysmal human rights record as well...... jttmab

To: bearshark who wrote (15564)	10/16/2002 4:19:01 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

I would do it through death squads that just get the job done quietly. I don't think this was exactly what you had in mind...the Indians have upped your idea... BOMBAY, India -- An opposition party demanded legal action Wednesday against a right-wing Hindu leader affiliated with India's ruling party, for calling on Hindus to form suicide squads. To tackle terrorism by Islamic militants, "Hindus should also be ready to give their lives ... form suicide squads," said Bal Thackeray, head of the Shiv Sena party, which is a partner in Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's coalition government. "The Vajpayee government cannot remain silent. It must come out denouncing this speech, as the Shiv Sena is a partner in the government," the Communist Party of India-Marxist said. In a statement, the party called on the government of Maharashtra state, where Bombay is the capital, to file charges of inciting hatred against religious minorities. Thackeray holds no official post, but is the powerful leader of the Bombay-based Shiv Sena, founded to serve the interests of poor Hindus. His call for Hindu suicide squads came during a public rally Tuesday, during which he spoke of a terrorist attack on a Hindu temple in neighboring Gujarat state last month in which more than 30 people were killed. Gujarat was also the site of religious riots earlier this year, in which 1,000 people died, most of them Muslims killed by Hindus. Most newspapers in Bombay dismissed Thackeray's statements, although the largest city in India has frequently been the scene of riots between Hindus and Muslims. Five were killed in such a riot last Friday. newsday.com