Iraqi Prisoners Quotes by John Yoo

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding…
• Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated…
• Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny…
• If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the…
• 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…
• Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of…

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