RED DOUBLE CROSSED AGAIN, THE ICRC BETRAYS AMERICA AND THE GENEVA CONVENTIONS

WSJ-www.opinionjournal.com ^ | December 2, 2004 | WSJ Opinion Staffers

[JesseHousman]

Once upon a time, the International Committee of the Red Cross was a humanitarian outfit doing the Lord's work to reduce the horrors of war. So it is a special tragedy to see that it has increasingly become an ideological organization unable to distinguish between good guys and bad. That's the unfortunate conclusion suggested by three years of open ICRC hostility toward U.S. conduct in the war on terror. The latest salvo was Tuesday's front page story in the New York Times quoting from an ICRC report complaining about the detention conditions and interrogation practices used on Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

[JesseHousman]

...the ICRC has become just another politicized pressure group like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Donate generously to this humanitarian world-wide extension of socialist ideals.

PS-Their 14,000 well-paid workers in Geneva like America.

[Garattler]

No thank you, Sir. The last time that I donated to the Red Cross was in april 1965.

[JesseHousman]

I was almost ten years behind you.

While in the Army, after saluting and collecting your $125 per month, there was a table that you couldn't pass. It was where $5 (which would have bought a lot of beer back then) was extracted from your packet and handed over to the Red Cross.