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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

Iran has a dismal record on human rights.

The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions - and Iraq may be one of them - when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.