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"Harry Hope" |
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09 Mar 2006 11:17:20 AM |
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Is this a getting-Bush-off-the-hook ploy? |
From The New York Daily News, 3/9/06:
http://www.nydailynews.com/03-09-2006/news/wn_report/story/398065p-337325c.html
State Dept. trashes UAE rights record
BY RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON -
The State Department's human rights report ripping the United Arab
Emirates landed with near-perfect bad timing for the White House
yesterday in the middle of the ports sale debate.
Opponents of the deal quickly seized on the report as yet another
strike against the sale of terminals at six major U.S. ports to a firm
owned by the government of Dubai, one of the seven emirates.
Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.), who raised the initial alarms that have now
been taken up by the GOP House leadership, said the report knocked
down the White House's argument that the UAE was a reform-minded
nation.
"This shows that they're a very regressive, very oppressive,
nondemocratic regime," King said.
"This is another reason that we shouldn't allow Dubai to own our
ports," said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
The section on the UAE in the State Department's annual survey of
human rights worldwide cited UAE abuses ranging from the flogging of
prisoners to international trafficking in prostitutes and in young
boys used as jockeys in camel races.
The report also charged, "There are no democratically elected
institutions or political parties. There are no general elections."
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Strange coincidence, eh?
Harry
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| User: "Geno2345" |
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| Title: Re: Is this a getting-Bush-off-the-hook ploy? |
09 Mar 2006 11:38:17 AM |
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Rice and her State Department has their own racism to cleanse before
criticizing other Nations.
The State Department should follow its intended policy. Diplomacy and not be
a sounding board for racism.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:8po0121cmeaafafrp3jpc05m3grfinv59s@4ax.com...
From The New York Daily News, 3/9/06:
http://www.nydailynews.com/03-09-2006/news/wn_report/story/398065p-337325c.html
State Dept. trashes UAE rights record
BY RICHARD SISK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
WASHINGTON -
The State Department's human rights report ripping the United Arab
Emirates landed with near-perfect bad timing for the White House
yesterday in the middle of the ports sale debate.
Opponents of the deal quickly seized on the report as yet another
strike against the sale of terminals at six major U.S. ports to a firm
owned by the government of Dubai, one of the seven emirates.
Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.), who raised the initial alarms that have now
been taken up by the GOP House leadership, said the report knocked
down the White House's argument that the UAE was a reform-minded
nation.
"This shows that they're a very regressive, very oppressive,
nondemocratic regime," King said.
"This is another reason that we shouldn't allow Dubai to own our
ports," said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
The section on the UAE in the State Department's annual survey of
human rights worldwide cited UAE abuses ranging from the flogging of
prisoners to international trafficking in prostitutes and in young
boys used as jockeys in camel races.
The report also charged, "There are no democratically elected
institutions or political parties. There are no general elections."
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Strange coincidence, eh?
Harry
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