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Originally Posted by Cosmo Electrolux
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My understanding is that a pardon was written into the bill
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hang on...I'm looking for the article I read that in....I know I didn't dream it. But, then again..... |
A thousand pardons....I misunderstood the article I read. What it said was:
Ten years ago, Congress passed a law called the “War Crimes Act.” Under that bill, violating the Geneva Convention is a crime in the United States. The Administration argued that the Convention doesn’t apply to “enemy combatants,” a term of its own invention. But the Supreme Court disagreed.
In other words, the Administration officials who have spent the last five years creating and directing our torture policy, as well as the government employees who have carried it out, could be liable for criminal prosecution for violating the War Crimes Act.
And so, they have decided to go back in time to 1997 and re-write the War Crimes Act to make their actions legal. That is exactly what this bill does. When President Bush signs this bill, he was be signing away any responsibility for the potentially criminal policies he and those in his Administration have enacted during the past five years. When he signs this bill, he will be signing a pardon for himself and for all other architects of these disastrous, self-defeating, and immoral policies.
To call this strategy cynical and self-serving would be an understatemen
Sorry about that. I'll try to be more observant next time.
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