Fiddling as Iraq Burns
Posted: Friday, December 17, 2004

South Africa's ruling party accuses
U.S. of using Africans as AIDS 'guinea pigs'
President Thabo Mbeki's ruling party published a stinging attack Friday against top U.S. health officials, accusing them of treating Africans like "guinea pigs" and lying to promote a key AIDS drug.

U.S. obviously didn't do all it could to protect troops

Too many mistakes

Cuban billboards highlight US abuses

Rights group: Iraq war tribunal flawed
Iraq's plan to push for early trials of Saddam Hussein and his deputies risks an unfair process that is flawed and discredited, according to a leading human-rights group.

Different targets, same tactics

Fiddling as Iraq Burns
The White House seems to have slipped the bonds of simple denial and escaped into the disturbing realm of utter delusion. On Tuesday, there was President Bush hanging the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, on George Tenet, the former C.I.A. director who slept through the run-up to Sept. 11 and then did the president and the nation the great disservice of declaring that it was a "slam-dunk" that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.



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