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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (53230)	2/8/2006 12:58:06 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) of 93284

Talking about Bolton and other apostles of peace... "Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo claims that the President has the inherent authority as commander-in- chief to bypass all laws that conflict with Bush's war on terrorism. Yoo has been reported as saying that Congress has no power to "tie the President's hands in regard to torture as an interrogation technique." And perhaps even more striking is Yoo's definition of torture, which to a large degree has been accepted and endorsed by the Bush Administration. Torture, according to Yoo, requires physical pain that is "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death." " So, pulling out a prisoner's fingernails is not torture?

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