An interesting post was just published on crooksandliars.com comparing how we know dismiss Amnesty international reports, compared to two years ago when they were part of the gospel used in order to wage an attack on Saddam Hussein.
On March 27, 2003, Donald Rumsfeld had this to say in a Pentagon press conference:

Anyone who has read Amnesty International or any of the human rights
organizations about how the regime of Saddam Hussein treats his people, heck he
used chemicals on his own people as well as on his neighbor.

Of course this quote was made when we were only a little over a week into the Iraq war. Now when Amnesty International makes a statement criticizing the United States in regards to the treatment of detainees, the administration considers them as being not a credible source (see earlier blog entry).

So too sum it up, Amnesty International is a viable source of information if George is using it to push ahead with his personal agenda. When Amnesty International makes negative reports regarding the United States though, they are not viable. Can we come up with an international organization to rate the double standards a nations leader uses? I guarantee the United States would top that list!