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With a touch of irony, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lambastes China for human rights abuses. In days of yore, it would be described as the pot calling the kettle black. How else to describe her outburst, when the US record on human rights, especially since 2001, more commonly referred to as 9/11. Since then, most sane-thinking Americans have hung their head in shame as the reports continue to surface of abuses of prisoners held in captivity under US command. The true extent of the torture and degradation may never be known, but when the Commander-in-Chief vetoes bans, and even supports, "waterboarding" as an acceptable form of interrogation, then it leaves very little to the imagination as to what else goes on behind closed prison doors.
Of course Pelosi's grandstanding was for the benefit of her host, the Dalai Lama while she was visiting Dharamsala, and doubtless will have gone down well.
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