Shoot the messenger

how very predictable... now that we've fully entered into the orwellian era of mind-control and oppression of opposing viewpoints, it only makes sense that the r's are now attacking the international committee of the red cross (icrc)... why would we expect otherwise...?

The Senate Republican Policy Committee said in a report that the international humanitarian organisation had ”lost its way” and veered from the impartiality on which its reputation was based.

The report -- ”Are American Interests Being Disserved by the International Committee of the Red Cross?” -- follows criticism by the Swiss-based group of U.S. treatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The Republican report called on the Bush administration to ask the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review Red Cross operations, noting that the U.S. funds 28 percent of the group's budget and has contributed 1.5 billion dollars since 1990.

A Senate source denied that the report was motivated by a desire to punish the ICRC for embarrassing the United States on its treatment of prisoners. In the aftermath of the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and elsewhere, the role of the ICRC has grown in importance, some experts said.

"denied the report was motivated by a desire to punish...?" puh-leeze...

Beau Grosscup, professor of international relations at the University of California, told IPS, ”This Republican effort makes sense only if one assumes that violating people's civil and human rights (including torture) is in U.S. interests.”

”If so, it is true that those such as the ICRC who are upholding their mandate and mission by investigating and then publicising their findings of violation indeed are working against U.S. interests.”

look out, professor grosscup, you're next...

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