Bush's Unwelcome Visit to Ireland: You, Sir, Are No Kennedy, Reagan or Clinton: "How can there be so little enthusiasm for welcoming Bush in as pro-American a country as exists on the face of the earth?
... We Irish, in our quarrel with Britain, have relied on American power, and that implicates us in how that power is exercised. The images from the Abu Ghraib prison were especially shocking here.
We took the British Army to the European Court of Human Rights for using techniques of interrogation in Northern Ireland much less extreme than were used in Abu Ghraib. The British techniques were ruled inhuman and degrading.
And Iraq is only the most lurid in a sequence of isolationist initiatives - the abrupt rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, the hostility to any international court of justice and, above all, the disrespect this administration has shown to the United Nations. "
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