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Old 06-19-2013, 10:35 AM  
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Originally Posted by deltav View Post
Dude, enough with the throwaway one-liners.

The point is - as distasteful & inhumane as Abu Graib was - that kind of stuff is unfortunately not out of the ordinary, so all this talk of Charge Bush With War Crimes is just silly. If we could go thru a list of individuals who've been actually charged & convicted of such in the 20th century and look at their deeds, you'd see there's absolutely no comparison.
it's not a one liner, it's an example of how the argument is reserved for children

and 'as distasteful and inhumane' abu graib was, there is documentated proof those orders came directly from the Secretary of Defense, and these crimes don't stop there
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