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Preliminary facts and thoughts about Eric Holder

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  • Wednesday, November 19, 2008 01:19 PM

    @jschultz

    I don't know how you managed to parse it the way you did, but the first sentence in Article 2 clearly says that if you're party to the Conventions, it doesn't matter if your opponent is or not. Now, as you said, if you want to argue that Al Queda is not a "Power", I think that's a lot more interesting argument.

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