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To: michael97123 who wrote (7009)	12/16/2005 9:00:14 PM
From: thames_sider	of 542455

If you believe we are at war (WOT) what bush did was certainly appropriate. Um, during no other war did the POTUS avow that the US needed extra-jurisdictional torture chambers, or the right to secretly move people from one to another. Nor indeed was it necessary to abandon the Geneva conventions when fighting the Nazis, in fact that was one thing separating the good guys from the bad ones. And of course standing up against torture, and preventing the random imprisonment and torture due to race or place, was one of the reasons we fought the last real war. Do you think the WWII veterans would be pleased to find the US snatching 'enemy combatants' (definition variable but not subject to challenge) and torturing them, or shipping them off to elsewhere for secret torture and indefinite jail? Exactly which part of the word "good" do you think this covers? Is this what your grandfather and mine died for?

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