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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (25264)	5/24/2004 7:14:36 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I know a lot of other countries have abysmal human rights records in previous decades, Germany, Russia, Japan, China, etc. At least some of them are trying to clean things up though by doing away with the death penalty and abandoning agressive military strategies. Neither of which can be said about the U.S. If anything, our human rights record has gotten worse since the end of the Cold War, with more states using the death penalty and our military policy much more agressive than it was when he had a foe like the Soviet Union to keep us in check. The Highway of Death in the first Gulf War is a good example of the way the U.S. actually views human rights, and unfortunately the recent prison abuse scandals in Iraq also indicates our thinly veiled concern for human rights. I know the U.S. freed millions from Communism and that was a major positive for human rights, but we've done little to try to improve the human rights of some of our client states who happen to follow our economic system.