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Nuremberg Precedent Trashed

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It was the United States that insisted the Nazis be held accountable for their atrocities. Who will insist and when that the United States be held accountable?

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Those who justified, encouraged torture were "perhaps remiss in judgment, but not to be held legally accountable."
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The news out of Washington was in English, but what I heard was: "Dey var only followink dere orders!"
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And the result is that we have a new legal precedent: Torture is unpleasant, but OK, that is if Americans rather than Nazis do it.
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And this comes to us not from Bush-Cheney Inc., but from Hope& Change Inc.
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C'mon, America, what kind of degenerates have we become? What more will it take to penetrate our hypocrisy and to transmute our sanctimony into some minimum level of human decency? Yes,we Christians! We Jews! We citizens! We humans?
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C'mon, churchies, bring something real with you when you exit those thick oaken portals of your moral sanctuary on your "holy" day!
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There's a word in honest English: Retribution. Heaven help our sorry backsides if we don't comprehend its definition!
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Then again, perhaps we'll somehow be spared, and only our children will pay.

 

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