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To: Win Smith who wrote (118017)	10/29/2003 5:33:38 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Respond to of 281500

<torture warrants> Just what the world needs. Make it all neat and regular. In practice, the Authorities don't want to leave such an obvious paper trail. There is always the chance, in some distant and barely-imaginable future, just a vague small worry the criminals might actually be punished. Kissinger and Abrams and Rumsfeld answering to the ICC. It took 25 years, but the Argentine and Chilean Generals are finally facing justice. So Plausible Deniability is a better strategy than torture warrants. In every guerrilla war that has ever been fought, wherever the battlefield, both sides torture prisoners. It's a universal constant. Treaties and good intentions and training never stop it. Never. There is good documentation, from the Revolutionary War onwards, torture happens every time U.S. armies are fighting a guerrilla war. The decision to go to war, is a decision to commit war crimes.