The White House has flatly rejected Amnesty International's charges that the U.S.-led war on terror had led to widespread human-rights abuses in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"I dismiss that. The war on terror has protected the human rights of some 25 million people in Afghanistan and some 25 million people in Iraq," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said yesterday, after the release of Amnesty's 2004 report on the state of human rights around the globe, which charges that the war has proved to be "bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle."
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"I dismiss that. The war on terror has protected the human rights of some 25 million people in Afghanistan and some 25 million people in Iraq," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said yesterday, after the release of Amnesty's 2004 report on the state of human rights around the globe, which charges that the war has proved to be "bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle."
