12.17.2004
America's War on Human Rights (NZHerald.co.nz)
BOOK REVIEW: America's War on Human Rights, by David Rose
17 December 2004
Reviewed by John Freeman
They talked about the war in Iraq and prescription drug benefits, debated gay marriage and discussed the particulars of our efforts to capture Osama Bin Laden. But one word you rarely heard President Bush or Senator John Kerry utter throughout the 2004 presidential campaign was Guantanamo.
Indeed, it was as if the US$155 million ($216 million) prison in Cuba built - David Rose reminds us in his new book - by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, didn't exist.
And that is exactly as the Government wanted things to be.
(More ... The New Zealand Herald) ¶ 10:07
17 December 2004
Reviewed by John Freeman
They talked about the war in Iraq and prescription drug benefits, debated gay marriage and discussed the particulars of our efforts to capture Osama Bin Laden. But one word you rarely heard President Bush or Senator John Kerry utter throughout the 2004 presidential campaign was Guantanamo.
Indeed, it was as if the US$155 million ($216 million) prison in Cuba built - David Rose reminds us in his new book - by Vice President Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton, didn't exist.
And that is exactly as the Government wanted things to be.
(More ... The New Zealand Herald) ¶ 10:07
