"But he does it tooooo"

aka. why it is important to have ethics as leader of one of the most prominent countries in the world.

Mugabe accused Bush of "rank hypocrisy" in response Bush calling Mugabe a violator of human rights.

And everything that this egotistical dictator says about Bush rings true, especially without question the comments about Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. In another article, Mugabe is quoted as saying "[Bush] has much to atone for and very little to lecture us on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."


So first of all... Mugabe, a "democratically" elected leader of a nation has been accused of "assault on his people," and his response is not "no, we do not torture people" but rather "George Bush does it too and while that does not make it right, it at least makes it wrong for him to accuse me of such things."

Next... uh, yea, actually good point. Wow. Damnit, I didn't want to say that Mugabe said something right, but darn I think I just did.

As far as I know, the Bush Camp has not responded. What would they possibly say?
This is why (if it weren't already obvious) that it's just not ok for us to torture people and avoid international conventions just because we can get away with it. A dictator in Africa who has been accused of starving his population through mismangement just proclaimed that the US has no moral standing, and he's kinda right. That makes the US ineffective as a world leader in trying to solve conflict and human rights violations. The United States of America, self proclaimed bringer of freedom and democracy and we have no moral standing. Great.

I think on some levels I really am somewhat scared and disappointed that in eight short years we have lost so much credibility in the eyes of the rest of the world and for good reason.