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kyra_ojosverdes) wrote2006-06-05 05:18 pm
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What. The. Fuck.
The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to military officials, a step that would mark a potentially permanent shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.
The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to military officials, a step that would mark a potentially permanent shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.
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Impeach him.
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Hey, newsflash for the idiotic assholes out there: yes, we were attacked on 9/11. And that means that if we start abandoning our principles, it proves that we never actually had any, because we were only willing to hold to them while they were easy, while no one had any strong temptation to abandon them.
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Vote the Republicans out. Get a Democratic House and Senate and start a real investigation.
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I have to confess, I think that will inexorably lead to impeachment, unless there's a huge tide of "Oh, poor, poor, *POOR* Bush, he didn't personally *order* these things, he was just pushed around by other people who said that they were necessary."
You'd hope that wouldn't happen. He is, after all, "the decider". But you can't be sure these days.
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Put Lieberman in stocks and let us throw rotten veggies at him for good measure, too.
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If the measure is how well he defends the Constitution and enforces the law--and that's certainly my understanding of the President's job, and that of the executive as a whole--then in my opinion, we have the worst, and most impeachable, President in all of United States history. A full investigation, of the whole gang, is absolutely called for. Thoughts on why this hasn't already happened will probably be going into a separate post...
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ITMFA (http://www.itmfa.com/)...
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What the HELL is happening to my country??
Dear God, make it stop before we are all destroyed.
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As if the law determined what was right and wrong.
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Not convincingly--see my comment above.
So um
and civilian hostages?
'cause after all we wrote ourselves out of that part of the treaty?
is the not-so-bad-kind-of-torture fair game for all sides now?