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"Former guards and detainees whom McClatchy interviewed said Bagram was a center of systematic brutality for at least 20 months, starting in late 2001. Yet the soldiers responsible have escaped serious punishment."
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And the "command responsibility doctrin" we've relied on to prosecute others, from Nuremberg to the Balkans - doesn't seem to apply to ourselves.
Ain't it great to be an empire?
Posted by: Charles Liu | June 18, 2008 at 04:59 AM
The US founding fathers have instilled laws to prevent the government from getting too powerful.
As long as the American people have the same spirit of the Revolution, everything is okay.
Problem, is when the people blindly support their government in the name of war against terror etc. etc. .
Posted by: mahathir_fan | June 18, 2008 at 02:44 PM