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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AK2004 who wrote (2759)	9/19/2003 8:49:40 AM
From: Rock_nj	Respond to of 20039

Well, there certainly are questions about how we are treating our prisoners. I've read that we're allowing foreign governments to do interogations because they can use methods that are illegal in the U.S. Also, I've read accounts of the U.S. locking Taliban prisioners in truck trailers for days and shooting holes in the trailers when they started complaining that they needed air. The U.S. certainly could do a lot more on the human rights front. Carter tried to loosely base our foreign policy on human rights, but that got blown out of the water by Reagan/Bush. We;re still supportng some very repressive regimes throughout the world, like Indonesia and Columbia, even Isreal some would argue. We could try to help the human rights situations in those countries by withholding support until they start making moves in the right direction. And of course, there's always our cozy relationship with the Communist China, a much more repressive and brutal Communist regime than Fidel's Cuba. Which one deserves a boycott?