Bury Me Broken

Republicans Attack the Red Cross

Via Body and Soul:

Senate Republicans are calling on the Bush administration to reassess U.S. financial support for the International Committee of the Red Cross, charging that the group is using American funds to lobby against U.S. interests.

The Senate Republican Policy Committee, which advances the views of the GOP Senate majority, said in a report that the international humanitarian organization had "lost its way" and veered from the impartiality on which its reputation was based. The Republican policy group titled its report: "Are American Interests Being Disserved by the International Committee of the Red Cross?"

The congressional criticism follows reports by the Swiss-based group that have faulted U.S. treatment of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"Lost its way" means that the ICRC won't stay in its place, handing out bags of rice and corn to tsunami victims and stay out of the businesss of speaking on anything other than. The ICRC dares say something in opposition to the U.S. is in keeping with the post 9/11 'you are either for us or giving aid and comfort to the enemy' mentality that has brother against brother here in the U.S.

The ICRC realizing that it is humanitarian to remove land mines instead of taking up donations for children to get prosthetic torsos is overstepping their bounds. To say something about the U.S. while we wage war is to not "support the President and the troops." So ICRC, United Nations and any other body to which we've given money, that money is not for operational expenses. It is hush money.

Our sad state of affairs reminds me of the relationship between an overbearing, must be right father and his family. My way or the highway because I pay the bills around here and I don't even want to hear you say anything. How dare you?

The United States is demanding that no one have an opinion except the opinion of the Republican evangelical opinion because even if the autopsy reveals that the patient had 50% of brain volume and was blind, Sen. Frist in his medical Dali Llama brilliance can analyze a videotape in an area not his expertise but with Jesus as his wingman, come to the conclusion of his choice, medical world be damned.

"Love thy neighbor if you are a Republican, evangelical Christian. That is the new Sermon on the Mount." -my mother

posted by niteskolar @ 11:52 AM