shraby
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Sat Nov-15-08 08:40 PM
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If Bush pardons the torturers, are they really safe |
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from prosecution?? That's an international treaty against torture that they broke by doing the torture. I doubt very much that he can pardon an international law. Any lawyers out there?
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Sat Nov-15-08 08:46 PM
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1. I understand that they are still vulnerable to arrest out side the Country. |
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(Kissinger can't just gallivant anywhere HE wants to, even now)
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Sat Nov-15-08 08:46 PM
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2. How many Israeli, Egyptian, Syrian, Libyan, or Turkish torturers have been prosecuted? |
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Sat Nov-15-08 09:18 PM
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3. I don't imagine they will lose too much sleep over it. |
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I also don't imagine that anything substantial will ever happen to them.
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Sun Nov-16-08 03:52 AM
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4. To pardon would be to admit guilt. Yathink that'll happen? |
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Sun Nov-16-08 04:03 AM
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5. Article in Harper's about this issue |
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Their website, unfortunately, is a subscribers only sort of affair, so the bookstore/newsstand/library would be the best bet i guess. "Justice after Bush: Prosecuting an outlaw administration" By Scott Horton. Page 49.
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