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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (45209)	5/5/2004 11:50:21 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

BUSH DEMOCRACY: DO YOU RECOGNIZE HIS AMERICA? ________________ "The Government's human rights record remained poor; however, there were improvements in a few areas. Substantial intervention by local power structures in the election process continued to restrict citizens' ability to change their Government peacefully....there were deaths in police custody and deaths in the military as a result of mistreatment. Members of the security forces routinely beat detainees during arrest and interrogation. Arbitrary arrest and detention was a problem. The Government rarely investigated abuses by members of the security forces and impunity remained a problem. Prison conditions remained harsh and life threatening, although there were some improvements. Lengthy pretrial detention was a problem....The judiciary is subject to political pressure and does not enforce constitutional protections effectively. Authorities did not respect constitutional protections regarding privacy and due process." __________________ The above might sound like a description of Bush's America today but it's not, it's the Bush administration's report on the human rights record of Armenia from 2001. To see the whole report and what we gave them (and other abusers)in foreign aid for the year click on the link. Below is the header from the page. ____________________ Since September 11, the Bush Administration has made the distribution of security assistance a centerpiece of his "War on Terrorism." In its haste to strengthen the "frontline" states' ability to confront transnational terrorist threats on their soil, and to gain the cooperation of regimes of geostrategic significance to the next phases of the "War on Terrorism", the administration is disregarding normative restrictions on U.S. aid to human rights abusers. The list below highlights this tradeoff by juxtaposing data on increases in military aid to the administration's allies in its global war on terror with excerpts from the State Department's recently released reports on human rights. fas.org