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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…
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First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.
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American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from…
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President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.
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Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods…
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Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding…
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Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated…
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Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny…
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If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods, and the…
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It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.
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Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in…
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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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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
— Paul Auster
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Your program must have an overriding purpose which is clearly visible and which teaches lessons beyond winning.
— Don Meyer
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The federal war on drugs is a total failure... The federal government's going in there and overriding state laws... Why don't we…
— Ron Paul
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The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological…
— E. O. Wilson
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In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world.…
— Russell Simmons
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You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this,…
— Ron Paul
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which…
— Hal Porter
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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the death penalty…
— Dalai Lama
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What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are the ones…
— Brian Eno
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Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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