You may recall that an expected report from the State Department on what the U.S. was doing to promote human rights was delayed earlier this month to avoid an unfortunate juxtaposition with the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal.
Well, now they've released it, and you can imagine how much they really didn't want to.
Guess which country the following excerpt refers to:
Hmmmm. Sounds pretty familiar, doesn't it? It's uncanny. But it's our report, they couldn't be talking about us. No, in fact the quote refers to Saudi Arabia, a country whose record on human rights the report rates as "poor."
The authority sparked outrage in March when it closed for 60 days the Baghdad newspaper Al Hawse, published by followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, accusing it of inciting violence against coalition troops.
Ugh. How embarrassing.