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well, if you look at bush's nominee for attorney general--the guy who wrote the famous position paper that argued people held at guantanamo were not prisoners of war so the geneva convention did not apply--they could be held without trial, without council, without being charged, indefinitely, could be tortured if the whim arose--who argued that creating this kind of black hole is legal---a guy who referred to the geneva convention as "quaint"--then you can look at the relation of the first and second terms like this:
first time round you got a neocon core with a couple extremely conservative but ultimately ineffectual guys in the mix--ashcroft.
this time round, you'll get the real fascists--gonzalez.
what's to worry about?
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