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Originally Posted by martyh
yes that does smack of double standards and does prove that Bush and chums were desperate to legalise some forms of torture by twisting definitions .I take it that Bush will now be arrested and tried now he has admitted openly to allowing waterboarding along with the perpetrators and those who issued the orders ,after all he has broken USA law at the very least and international law at worst
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well it's very relavent if ever the perpetrators are arrested and a descision has to made if torture has been used"
Why would it be relevant? Is "We
personally didn't think it was severe" a plausible defence
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If you go back through the links I've used (sorry I can't remember the specific one) you'll see that there were moves to bring charges already underway before he made these recent admissions.
The fact that he has now done so makes for an interesting development.