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In reply to the discussion: Charles P Pierce- The President's worst moment [View all]ReRe
(10,597 posts)... about some of us. Some people just don't understand laws, Justice, Geneva Conventions. It's not that difficult of a concept. You do the crime, you do the time. Otherwise, why have all those laws? What happened to all the political platitudes about this being a "Nation of Laws?"
GWB took this country into new territory. That of becoming a "rogue nation," which I always remembered was what we fought against in this world. But he took us there, when he shunned International Law, when he shunned the Constitution. He took us to that new all-time low of ill treatment, in fact torture, of prisoners of war. It was a slap in the face to our troops, because it's highly probable that if they are captured by the "enemy" in one our preemptive invasions, they can expect no better treatment. Proper treatment of POWs was practiced all the way back to George Washington. (Except of course in some POW camps during the Civil War. Andersonville comes to mind.)