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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
"If we had a pardon followed by something like a truth and reconciliation commission, that might not be such a bad outcome."
Sorry, but who would these criminals "reconcile" with? The dead? The tortured? The maimed? The now-insane? Please, suffice it to say these war criminals are going to get away with it because they can. As long as the United States isn't Rwanda, Congo, Serbia or any other nation that lacks geopolitical power, its "leaders" can commit crimes with impunity and answer to no one. This can be cloaked in all manner of legal/ethical/political niceties, but that one fact remains--the globally powerful can abuse the rest of humanity as they choose and they will never, never, be held to account.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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