Ed Horgan on Prime Time tonight!

national | anti-war / imperialism | news report Thursday January 19, 2006 19:56 by RTE Watcher

Former Reagan / Bush lawyer to oppose

Just got a phone call from Ed Horgan.
He is to debate on Prime Time tonight with David B. Rivkin, a US lawyer who served in the Justice Department under President Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and who writes articles attacking the red-cross and Amnesty as "Anti-American" ironically, he is a member of the U.N. Sub-commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.

"In the wake of the Abu Ghraib abuses, Bush administration critics have demanded to know why American officials did not act on the ICRC's complaints. The answer to that question may well be that, whatever its role in the past, the ICRC was not taken seriously enough because it no longer merits its reputation for neutrality. In fact, ICRC reports cannot be taken at face value for three important reasons. " that the Red Cross is selective, has an agenda, " to promote additional human-rights protections for insurgent or guerrilla forces." and ignores half the equation in war...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040616-092410-1992r.htm

read where he attacks Amnesty in the right-wing National Review...
"Amnesty Unbelievable"
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/rivkin_casey200505270804.asp


and Asks "Was any law broken in Iran Contra?"
http://www.worldandi.com/specialreport/1987/november/Sa13134.htm

"In fact, we are at war against a segment of the Islamic world -- which have themselves declared war on the West...
The forces who are fighting against us are opposed not merely to specific American or European policies, but to our entire way of life"

Consistently, this lackey of Reagan and Bush 1st, will come out guns blazing to defend anything that his masters require defended. And in the absence of a political spokesperson, Prime Time have asked him on...?

I reckon Ed should take it as a compliment that they wouldn't have him on until the Reagan/Bush Admin's big guns agreed to attack him on air...

I wonder if Mark Little will put it up to this guy to back up any of his assertions, given that he's ironically on a UN committee to promote Human Rights.

Give em Hell Ed.