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“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 Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.” quote by John Yoo — Download Open image

“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 Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.”

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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 any battlefield,…

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That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that…

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A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

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This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

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There was nothing wrong - and everything right - with analyzing a law that establishes boundaries on interrogation in the war on terrorism.

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President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied.

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Congress has created and funded a huge peacetime military that has substantial abilities to wage offensive operations, and it has not placed restrictions on the use of that military or the funds to support it, because it would rather let the president take the political risks in deciding on war. If Congress wanted to play a role in restricting war,…

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

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(The United States) is the same as al-Qaeda, under a different color flag, calling on the name a different God to sanction and approve our murder and our mayhem!

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It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

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