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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 09:01 AM

    Pressure from the international community

    While pressuring the feckless Democrats to uphold our laws and insist that criminal acts committed by the Bush regime need to be prosecuted regardless of the wealth and elite standing of those lawbreakers in the beltway community, it would certainly make matters much easier if the international community would start demanding as much as what Glenn is pointing out. I've been baffled since the Abu Ghraib abuses came to light in 2004, and then the torture program being executed directly from the White House (even boastfully by Cheney) was exposed, why the signatories to the Geneva Conventions (Great Britian, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, et al.) aren't demanding justice.

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