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Ahmadinejad vs. Bush: Which has the bigger heart?

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Yesterday, after holding fifteen British sailors and marines for almost two weeks, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad released them so they could be home with their families for the Easter holiday.

On the other hand, George W. Bush has been holding hundreds of terror suspects, many of them innocent, for as long as five years, with no hope of ever being freed.

Ahmadinejad may be a madman, and I'm certainly not defending him. But, in this particular case, doesn't he seem like the greater humanitarian of the two?

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Mary Shaw is a Philadelphia-based writer and activist, with a focus on politics, human rights, and social justice. She is a former Philadelphia Area Coordinator for the Nobel-Prize-winning human rights group Amnesty International, and her views (more...)
 
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