"President Bush and his commanders announced early in……" — John Yoo
"President Bush and his commanders announced early in the conflict that the Conventions applied."
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25 Quotes by John Yoo
John Yoo has 25 quotes on this site.
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It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of…
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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…
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Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for…
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Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested…
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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…
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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…
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If the Court were to extend its reach to the base, judges could begin managing conditions of confinement, interrogation methods,…
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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…
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Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive…
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Punishing abuse in Iraq should not return the U.S. to Sept. 10, 2001, in the way it fights al Qaeda,…
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars,…
— Eric Cantor
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When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did…
— Jimmy Carter
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One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its…
— Unknown Author
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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have…
— Carl Sagan
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The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Recognize in this bread what hung on the cross, and in this chalice what flowed from His side... whatever was…
— Saint Augustine
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the…
— John of Damascus
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people,…
— Justin Martyr
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If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped…
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