Bush also gave him his backing on human rights concerns, which, coming from the gentleman responsible – in the eyes of most of the world -- for Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, is perhaps damning with faint praise. But most disappointingly for Uribe, though understandably, the US President was unable to bring with him guaranteed congressional support either for Colombia’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the US, nor funding renewal for the so-called Plan Colombia.