By: Bulov on: 12.02.2008
Source:
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/103963-1/
This Government tortures people, states former President Jimmy Carter, who claims that for the first time in his life, he has seen the United States of America abandoning the upholding of human rights as a mainstay of its policy.
In an interview with CNN this week, Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America between 1977 and 1981, declared that far from believing that the Bush Government commits torture, he knows it for certain. Denying the veracity of George Bush’s claim on Thursday that “This Government does not torture people,” he added that “Our country, for the first time in my life, has abandoned the basic principle of human rights. We have said that the Geneva Conventions do not apply for those detained in the prison in Abu Ghraib and in the base at Guantanamo, and we have decided that we can torture prisoners.”
For Jimmy Carter, the influence of Vice President Cheney on foreign affairs in general and over George Bush in particular, has been “disastrous” for the USA.
The declarations of Jimmy Carter, who through the Carter Centre, in its own words, is “committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering... creating a world in which every man, woman, and child has the opportunity to enjoy good health and live in peace” has travelled the world promoting human rights, comes at the same moment when Michael Hayden, Director of the CIA, has admitted that this Agency used torture against three detainees.
Continued . . .
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment