John Yoo Quotes

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• It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu Ghraib…
• First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.
• American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making…
• President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.
• Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond…
• Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.
• Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.
• Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and…
• If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the use of information.
• It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
• Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition…
• Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and…
• Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda, while Osama bin Laden and…
• While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for…
• Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
• We can guess that the unacceptable conduct of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib resulted in part from the dangerous state of affairs on the ground…
• This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.
• Al Qaeda operates by launching surprise attacks on civilian targets with the goal of massive casualties. Our only means for preventing future attacks, which could…
• In light of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, critics are arguing that abuses of Iraqi prisoners are being produced by a climate of disregard for…
• It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al…

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