Our Allies In War On Terror: Despots, Dictators and Traffickers In Humans

Yes, the best way to fight the war on terror is to provide financial and military support to the cruel monarchy in Saudi Arabia (the world's biggest supporter of terrorism), the petty military tinpots of Pakistan (the world's biggest supplier of nuclear material and know-how) and other bastions of freedom.

The latest proof in how perverse we are in greedily pairing with countries like this? Bush's own goverment singles out four of our allies as not even meeting the minimum standards when it comes to combatting the trafficking in humans. Yes, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirate join such lovely folk as North Korea, Myanmar and Cuba as countries that don't even try to pretend they care about halting the international trafficking in humans. Another word for trafficking in humans? Slavery.

Of course, Bush released the report on Friday, hoping everyone would forget about his hypocrisy by Monday.