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Senator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-04-07 05:37 PM
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It's Not The Tongue, It's The Torture !! (Impeach Now)
The entire DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy will be jabbering about Scenes from The Godfather and whether Mrs. Ashcroft should have stuck out her tongue or given the finger, or both. Meanwhile...

That rebuke finally arrived, however, last year in the Hamdan case, when the Supreme Court rejected the administration’s claim that it could try suspected terrorists in military commissions created without Congressional approval. In a further blow to the administration, the court held that the legal protections of “common article 3” of the Geneva Conventions, which contains minimal protections for detainees in wartime, also applied in the war against Al Qaeda. Goldsmith says he believes this ruling was “legally erroneous” but “hugely consequential.” It provided detainees at Guantánamo with more rights than the administration had ever acknowledged, and it implied that the War Crimes Act might be used to prosecute administration officials for their treatment of detainees.


The once-great United States of America stays the course as a War Criminal Nation.

"Gee really? But that wasn't in the first paragraph or the CNN callout graphic. It can't be as important as Larry Craig's sexual orientation, can it?"

Failure to impeach is complicity -- approval -- exoneration for the regime.

Get on with it or defend yourself to The Hague, to your children, and to your maker.

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