Saudi gang-rape case atrocity swept under the rug by Bush
Posted By JC Carter on December 4, 2007
I reported on this story last month and JM told me about this little development from our Occupier-in-Chief’s Q&A this morning…
From Crook’s and Liars:
CNN’s Ed Henry: On another issue of credibility in the Mid East — At the Annapolis Summit you used your influence to get Saudi Arabia to the table but I wonder whether now you will use you influence to do something about the Saudi rape case that has gotten so much international attention? What goes through your mind when you hear about a 19 year old Saudi woman getting gang raped by seven men and basically a Saudi court blames the victim and sentences her to 200 lashes? You spoke to King Abdullah by telephone in the last couple of weeks. Did you press him on this case? If so what did you say and if not, are you giving him a pass?”
Bush: My first thoughts were these. What happens if this happened to my daughter? How would I react? And I would have been — I would have been very emotional, of course. I’d have been angry at those who committed the crime, and I would be angry at the state that didn’t support the victim, and our opinions were expressed by Dana Perino from the podium.
Henry: Did you press King Abdullah about it personally?
Bush: I talked to King Abdullah about the Middle eastern peace. I don’t remember if that subject came up.
Henry: If it was that important to you why wouldn’t you at that level bring it directly up to King Abdullah?
Bush: There’s plenty of time. He knows our position loud and clear.
So clearly this wasn’t important to him, and somehow, that doesn’t surprise me.
What a horrific way to ignore the crimes of and support a repressive regime–all in the name of money and power.
Failure to impeach Bush and Cheney should make Congress weep with shame.
And what is Bush doing about Sudan and the millions of refugees there without adequate shelter, food and water, subjected to rape and killing by the “janjaweed” militias? The Congolese militias who force fathers to rape their own daughters at gunpoint? The abduction of peacably protesting innocent monks in the former Burma (so-called Myanmar) by the military rulers there?
Bush and “Darth Cheney”–one of the darkest, dirtiest s-called leaders in modern US history–are so focused on war-mongering and money-making that they fail utterly on human rights.
Impeach them now! Jail them after leaving office.