LIE OF THE WEEK: 01-05-2007
White House Spokesman Tony Snow on the controversy surrounding Saddam Hussein's execution:
"It's interesting because there seems to be a lot of concern about the last two minutes of Saddam Hussein's life and less about the first 69 in which he murdered hundreds of thousands of people. That's why he was executed."
THE TRUTH: Trying to deny the human rights abuses that clearly occurred during the execution process by focusing on Saddam's crimes is absolutely the wrong thing to do. Anyone who truly cares about human and civil rights will not deny these rights even to the worst of criminals. These statements play straight into the hands of America's enemies who will use this as evidence that our government's human rights record is severely flawed, especially after all of the previous incidents at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
"It's interesting because there seems to be a lot of concern about the last two minutes of Saddam Hussein's life and less about the first 69 in which he murdered hundreds of thousands of people. That's why he was executed."
THE TRUTH: Trying to deny the human rights abuses that clearly occurred during the execution process by focusing on Saddam's crimes is absolutely the wrong thing to do. Anyone who truly cares about human and civil rights will not deny these rights even to the worst of criminals. These statements play straight into the hands of America's enemies who will use this as evidence that our government's human rights record is severely flawed, especially after all of the previous incidents at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib.
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