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Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly, the president called for renewed efforts to enforce the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a striking point of emphasis for a leader who’s widely accused of violating human rights in waging war against terrorism.

Bush didn’t mention the U.S. prisons in Afghanistan or at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. practice of holding detainees for years without legal charges or access to lawyers, or the CIA’s “rendition” kidnappings of suspects abroad, all issues of concern to human rights activists around the world.

“At first read, it’s little more than an exercise in hypocrisy. His words about human rights ring hollow because his credibility is nonexistent,” said Curt Goering, the deputy executive director of Amnesty International USA. “The gap between the rhetoric and the actual record is stunning. I can’t help but believe many people in the audience were thinking, ‘What was this man thinking?’ ”

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The president also had sharp words for Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Syria, Zimbabwe and Sudan for having “brutal regimes” that “deny their people the fundamental rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration” of Human Rights. He omitted any reference to repressive regimes allied with his war on terrorism, including Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia and China.

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790. My name is not uncommon. I’ve had brushes with several others sharing my name: a man who shared the same doctor with me in southern Wisconsin, the head of the school of dermatology at a major university in California, the photography editor of Playboy ( I not only used to get his phone calls but last year I met his next door neighbor), another employee where I worked in Portland, Oregon (our spouses also had the same first name), a famous actor, a deadbeat who was being chased by bill collectors, and most recently I saw the names of Mrs. Skank and me  on a headstone when I was picking out a grave site for my father (I chose another part of the cemetery).

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