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Sun Feb 19, 2012, 01:02 PM

39. By that reasoning, every single President who presided over any military conflict is a 'war criminal

The difference is that Bush actually ordered torture and presided over an unprovoked invasion.

If you refuse to draw lines or make distinctions, then everyone is guilty or everyone is innocent.

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69 replies	Author	Time	Post
Ohio state House speaker jokes that Obama should be sent to jail [View all]	highplainsdem	Feb 2012	OP
And Shrub should be sent to the Hague for War Crimes!	sce56	Feb 2012	#1
+1	proud2BlibKansan	Feb 2012	#7
+2	Kurmudgeon	Feb 2012	#16
+3	sueh	Feb 2012	#17
+4	TexasTowelie	Feb 2012	#20
+1000	Suji to Seoul	Feb 2012	#25
+1001	wordpix	Feb 2012	#57
+1005	AsahinaKimi	Feb 2012	#66
It's an interesting question. Who should go? Bush because of the orders he	24601	Feb 2012	#26
Out of those examples, only one has a chain of intention. n/t	The Doctor.	Feb 2012	#27
You are confusing intent with motive. Intent is required to prove a case while	24601	Feb 2012	#34
By that reasoning, every single President who presided over any military conflict is a 'war criminal	The Doctor.	Feb 2012	#39
Not at all. Homocide refers to death of people. Manslaughter and murder refer	24601	Feb 2012	#43
The Geneva Convention has no protections for unlawful combatants.	joshcryer	Feb 2012	#46
Are you saying it's lawful to kill & torture someone who is an unlawful combatant? Aren't there	24601	Feb 2012	#52
POWs are only protected if they are fighting for a recognized state. An unlawful combatant is one...	joshcryer	Feb 2012	#61
I still believe that I'm accurate about some protections being afforded to underprivileged	24601	Feb 2012	#62
That's fair enough, but I was speaking generally. In the case of the US we see how difficult...	joshcryer	Feb 2012	#63
LoisB	LoisB	Feb 2012	#36
And Shrub should be sent to the Hague for War Crimes!	AlbertCat	Feb 2012	#42
Plus all I can count to n/t	Mira	Feb 2012	#50
+1 million. But we're not joking.	ScottLand	Feb 2012	#51
3 years of kissing up to republicans doesn't buy immunity nt	msongs	Feb 2012	#2
Oh, isn't he sweet?	CaliforniaPeggy	Feb 2012	#3
it's his racism showing	Skittles	Feb 2012	#12
I was thinking the exact same thing...	AsahinaKimi	Feb 2012	#67
And repugs should go to the landfill.	Arctic Dave	Feb 2012	#4
Jimmy Carter was one of our best presidents.	eyewall	Feb 2012	#5
+1!	Rhiannon12866	Feb 2012	#10
I am absolutely disgusted with todays Republicans.	airplaneman	Feb 2012	#13
Absolutely true.	tabasco	Feb 2012	#44
Thank you.	SheilaT	Feb 2012	#45
It's easy to understand that a man	eyewall	Feb 2012	#48
and he's the best post-president	wordpix	Feb 2012	#58
What an ass. He can join our KS GOP House speaker in the butthead group.	proud2BlibKansan	Feb 2012	#6
Speaking of buttheads...	CBHagman	Feb 2012	#32
"large posterior"??	unkachuck	Feb 2012	#64
I know Batchelder personally.	Deep13	Feb 2012	#8
Batchelder looks like a 60-something Ernie Douglas from the TV show My Three Sons	bulloney	Feb 2012	#35
I think he looks like a child molester.	Deep13	Feb 2012	#55
And has done so little except kiss Old Money ass in Medina Lo! these many years	Ikonoklast	Feb 2012	#47
True, that and Christian conservative ass. nt	Deep13	Feb 2012	#53
haha, if Obama's the worst president ever...	Drunken Irishman	Feb 2012	#9
On the other hand:	cliffordu	Feb 2012	#11
Exactly. DU wastes so much time pretending that these people THINK, and MEAN things	saras	Feb 2012	#14
I thought that was kind of mild myself	lunatica	Feb 2012	#28
Ironic...	caveat_imperator	Feb 2012	#15
George W. who?	earcandle	Feb 2012	#18
They have nothing.	SleeplessinSoCal	Feb 2012	#19
Oh, those madcap Republicans	Sherman A1	Feb 2012	#21
They're NOT joking.	hobbit709	Feb 2012	#22
Another treasonous Republican	JJW	Feb 2012	#23
His wife is a federal appeals court judge on the 6th circuit, and was rumored to be a Supreme Court	BzaDem	Feb 2012	#24
Wow. I missed that story...eom	Kolesar	Feb 2012	#29
I saw them both in action back in the 70's when I was a page in the State House..,	WCGreen	Feb 2012	#37
Ah, the Party of Spite and Mendacity.	CBHagman	Feb 2012	#30
Do these people have their Klan robes on when they say this crap?	47of74	Feb 2012	#31
IPPM	bora13	Feb 2012	#33
Uh, is that treasonous talk? nt	valerief	Feb 2012	#38
stupid talk? yes...	awoke_in_2003	Feb 2012	#49
It's free speech. I disagree with it	The Second Stone	Feb 2012	#40
Nothing new.	Beacool	Feb 2012	#41
Waste of air	evilhime	Feb 2012	#54
Jimmy Carter	Roy Rolling	Feb 2012	#56
A-hah, a-hah, a-hah. What wit.	the_chinuk	Feb 2012	#59
huh	Tiggeroshii	Feb 2012	#60
Instead of trying to ape a not-so-spectacular comedian,	Judi Lynn	Feb 2012	#65
Yeah..	AsahinaKimi	Feb 2012	#68
FLY! FLY AWAY HOME!!	HughBeaumont	Feb 2012	#69

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