| As guy said, when has AI implied people like Saddam were as a bad as Hitler or the Soviet Union? Of all of the countries in the world who really abuse people, who really torture people, they say the U.S. is the leader. |
Actually, that's misinformation. Previous AI reports, from when Saddam was in power, ranked Iraq VERY high in human rights violations. AI is not usually in the business of making subjective judgements, such as comparing Saddam to Hitler, or even of Gitmo to "Gulag", so you won't find those quotes.
I haven't perused the 2004 report yet, but in defense of AI, I will say that previous reports have been VERY fair. When you consider AI's reports, however, you must consider that AI considers the death penalty to be a human rights violation, so the US has been pegged on that in reports in the past. But the US has never been near the top of the list of human rights violators in the past; instead, "the usual suspects" fill the bill (South Africa, for instance, during apartheid, more recently countries like Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan have topped the list). I would definitely take caution in discrediting an entire organization based on a subjective judgement of one of its members.