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  • Lawyers Decided Bans on Torture Didn't Bind Bush. (Yes, it's NYT, and yes it's from Google. Grumble, grumble.)

  • Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
Somehow, we still tolerate each other. Eventually this will be the only forum left.
 #16610  by Kupek
 Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:16 am
<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/08/polit ... =GOOGLE</a>

Lawyers Decided Bans on Torture Didn't Bind Bush. (Yes, it's NYT, and yes it's from Google. Grumble, grumble.)</div>

 #16614  by Ganath
 Tue Jun 08, 2004 3:40 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, the Bush administration's lawyers say that Bush is above the law. Shocking. And I thank you for the Google link, btw.</div>

 #16615  by Julius Seeker
 Tue Jun 08, 2004 7:07 pm
<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Idiots, only Steven Segal is above the law.</div>

 #16621  by SineSwiper
 Wed Jun 09, 2004 4:25 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>When the job is image control, trying to dance around the issue with legal loopholes is not going to win over world opinion, or the votes of the American public.</div>

 #16629  by Derithian
 Wed Jun 09, 2004 2:07 pm
<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Ooh, don't forget to add Stalone to that list. He is the law. who would've thought judge dredd was only 4 feet tall....</div>

 #16642  by Zeus
 Wed Jun 09, 2004 6:42 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>The Warren Commission, also appointed by The President at the time, concluded that the Magic Bullet was a viable explanation for the death of Kennedy and injuries to Connelly.... (G-Man, note how I dissed a Democrat)</div>

 #16643  by SineSwiper
 Wed Jun 09, 2004 8:08 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Lyndon was a Republicrat. He doesn't count.</div>

 #16648  by Zeus
 Wed Jun 09, 2004 9:53 pm
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Wasn't he Kennedy's vice president?</div>

 #16649  by Stephen
 Wed Jun 09, 2004 10:26 pm
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Uh, no. While his tenure in the Senate might be called otherwise, Johnson was a classic New Deal Democrat in the FDR vein. His Great Society programs are evidence enough of that.</div>

 #16653  by SineSwiper
 Thu Jun 10, 2004 5:03 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>It's ironic that a Democrat starts the Vietnam war and a Republican ends it.</div>

 #16671  by Stephen
 Fri Jun 11, 2004 3:07 am
<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Not so much, really. Kennedy (who escalated U.S. involvement in Vietnam years before Johnson) and LBJ were both staunch anti-communist liberals. The Democratic Party had no shortage of those until the 1970s.</div>

 #16673  by SineSwiper
 Fri Jun 11, 2004 5:46 am
<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Kennedy at least had an exit strategy. He didn't want nearly as much involvement with Vietnam as it actually turned out.</div>