On Aug 5, 2011, at 11:57 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Funny you say that without providing any "facts" of your own. But that's > typical of liberals that don't think things through and prefer to make snap > judgments based on emotions.
There you go arguing with the straw liberals in your head again. The legal case for trying Bush and Cheney for war crimes is pretty clear-cut: <http://archive.truthout.org/cheney-admits-war-crimes-media-yawns-obama-turns-other-cheek56924> <http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/07/12/human_rights_watch_bush_administration_torture_reed_brody_dictat.html> <http://lawreview.wustl.edu/slip-opinions/waterboarding-is-illegal/> We hung Japanese officers who committed waterboarding on American POW's; waterboarding has long been defined in domestic and treaty law as torture, and the Bush Administration's reliance on John Yoo's peculiar legal gymnastics to define up as down and torture as "enhanced interrogation" is about as effective as Eichmann's "I was just following orders". That they haven't been prosecuted for their multiple crimes is different issue entirely (Bush also admitted to violating FISA on national TV, without even a fig-leaf of a legal opinion. Not a war crime, but certainly an impeachable offense) Their outing of Valerie Plame should correctly be construed as treason. Certainly if I exposed a covert CIA agent I would be prosecuted, vigorously. As a self-described civil libertarian, you should be as outraged by the Bush administrations actions as I am. (and I won't even get into the lies that they used to get Congress to approve of war with Iraq) -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
