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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (818315)11/20/2014 7:20:01 PM
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>> What do you think about Turley's claim that Bush is a war criminal? You never answered that question.

I was never asked the question.

But I disagree fundamentally with Turley's opinion -- not a legal opinion, but his personal opinion, that waterboarding is torture. If I believed that waterboarding was torture I might be able to make the leap to war crimes. But I don't.

I understand his legal opinion that we (the US) established that waterboard was torture under the law. However, the limiting waterboarding that was conducted on three people during the war on terror posed no threat to the life of any of the terrorists in that it was done under supervision. And, we could have just done as was done with bin Laden, and shot them dead.

I have no problem with the three individuals who were waterboarded receiving that treatment.

I should also say that Turley has expressed that he believes Barack Obama has significantly escalated the threat to our democracy from where Bush left it.

Like you, I can not make that leap things are worse under Obama claimed by Turley. It seems Turley has failed us both.
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