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To: jlallen who wrote (472427)	4/16/2009 1:20:35 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Read Replies (3) of 1575244

According to your absurd argument, if Bush had ordered suspects' eyes to be gouged out as an interrogation tactic, that too would be a lawful sanction and not torture according the the UN Convention on Torture. An executive order is not a lawful sanction. A lawful sanction is a normal, legal punishment for a convicted criminal, like the death penalty for example. That can not be called torture by the UN Convention because it is a lawful sanction. Your argument is ridiculous and disingenuous (as usual). Obviously so when one reads the Convention: 1. Each State Party shall take effective legislative, administrative, judicial or other measures to prevent acts of torture in any territory under its jurisdiction. 2. No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture. 3. An order from a superior officer or a public authority may not be invoked as a justification of torture. You spin and lie in defense of torture. Nice work if you cant get it i guess... SD

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