Vile Requiem Posted June 13, 2004 Report Posted June 13, 2004 As has been reported in the New York Times among other sources following the Ashcroft testimony, a series of legal memoranda was drafted for the White House advising that the President in specifics and the Exectutive Branch (which includes the Military) in general. These advise that the Commander in Chief would be exempt from charges of torturing prisoners of war [a war crime] due to his having the authorization to protect the country by any means necessary. This has a few serious flaws, the first of which being the absolute destruction of the Geneva Convention, which is pretty much the only thing that keeps out captive soldiers from having Hanoi Hilton's pulled on them on a daily basis in wartime. If this authorization holds up, the next Saddam (and there will be another one someday ) will think himself able to torture people legally too, if not use WMD LEGALLY to defend his country from the evil "terrorist invaders". Goodbye rules of war, we knew ye well, because as the "sole superpower" in the world, our legal precidents tend to effect the world in a large way. Secondly, this has bad tidings for the Bush Admin, because of the White House recieving these memoranda, not the Pentagon itself. This means that someone is trying to cover their -*BAD WORD*- and KNEW about the Iraq prison scandals, whether it's Ashcroft, Rumsfield, Cheney, Rice, or Bush we have no way of knowing yet. They're lucky Reagan died to keep this sort of stuff off the Times front page 2 days ago. Finally, our esteemed Attorney General Mr. Ashcroft is stonewalling the inquiry into these do-*BAD WORD*-ents. Why?
Arianax Posted June 15, 2004 Report Posted June 15, 2004 They're even stopping people from replying to this post.... -*BAD WORD*-s
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