"the Danimal" wrote:
>miguel wrote:
>> The likelihood that Bush Administration officials at the highest levels were
>> uninvolved with approving torture is so remote as to beg the question "what if
>> superman were german." Our nation's current attorney general wrote a memo legally
>> justifying torture. I suppose you're trying to argue that there is some chance that
>> this was all just an academic piece of research, and just coincidentally torture
>> occurred at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo? What about the renderings of suspects to
>> other countries for torture? These decisions were all made by mid-level
>> bureaucrats in the DIA/CIA?
>I was watching the Michael Moore movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" the other
>night. Very entertaining. Anyway, Michael Moore takes George W. Bush
>to task for arranging to let his friends, the Bin Laden family, flee
>the United States in the days after 9/11. I'm guessing Micheal Moore
>wanted Bush to lean a little harder on these people. Bush did not
>do all he could have done to prevent the terror attacks.
>So now Bush seems to be in trouble for doing too much.
>What is the right balance between the conflicting goals of
>(a) preventing terror attacks and (b) protecting the civil rights
>of terrorists?
I can understand the difficulty you might face trying to find some kind of balance
between those two extremes.
</smirk>
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