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Thread #55055 Message #911921
Posted By: Forum Lurker
17-Mar-03 - 10:56 AM
Thread Name: BS: US torture
Subject: RE: BS: US torture
Teribus-very good points for the most part. The only thing I disagree with is the consistent use of the word "war" to describe our attempts to defend ourselves from and destroy terrorist organizations. War used to have a distinct legal meaning, and it is the elimination of that meaning which allows Bush to treat anyone from an Afghanistani villager to a second-generation Pakistani immigrant as an "enemy combatant," denied both civil liberties and POW status under the Geneva Accords.