> gg wrote: > waterboarding is a war crime and subject to prosecution. It's hard to > find someone who ISN'T talking about this seriously. > > Both Bush and Cheney went on national television and said they authorized it. >
The democrats, near as I can tell, are working overtime to shut this whole thing down. Obama and Holder and being all wishy-washy and talking about moving forward. Obama: "We have not made final decisions, but my instinct is for us to focus on how do we make sure that moving forward we are doing the right thing. That doesn't mean that if somebody has blatantly broken the law, that they are above the law. But my orientation's going to be to move forward." The torturers, btw, can use an estoppel defense to avoid prosecution by saying that lawyers said they could legally do it. That might work for them. It WON'T work for Bush and Cheney. Now granted there's going to be jurisdiction are-they-legal-combatants type stuff, and there are "cognizable" arguments that say they weren't and therefore there's no crime. But remove the politics and there's plenty of firm ground to arrest Bush and Cheney and hash out the protections in court. And the experts I've spoken with have detailed exactly why they'd Bush and Cheney would lose. The Democrats pushing for the commission know this too which is why they want the commission to bury the thing.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285774 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
