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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Rights are limited by law. As you know. Are there laws permitting the torture and inhumane treatment of accused prisoners? Are these just laws?
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apparently, there are. especially since there are no prosecutions forthcoming.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
what the bush people fashioned as a pseudo-legal justification for torture violates international conventions that the united states is signatory of and should have opened bush administration people up to prosecution by, say, the international war crimes tribunal.
but the americans have a Problem with the international war crimes tribunal. especially conservative-nationalist types. part of this has to do with their seeming inability to concede that its possible for the united states to commit the main operative war crime, which is to lose a war.
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and yet, when 80+ people were crushed and burned by military equipment in Waco, none of you leftists yelled for a war crimes trial or a human rights prosecution, did you?
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