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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Brian Good <snug.bug@hotmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:54:19 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Sosfbay-discuss] Jonathan Turkley on Olbermann about Rule of Law<BR></FONT><BR>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">Turley said Obama's silence is conspicuous. The</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">easiest thing to say is that we must prosecute war</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">crimes, because treaties obligate us, and that's the</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">law. Nobody in the Obama camp is saying the</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">magic words. Bush's underlings have an estoppel</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">defense--they can say they were advised by John</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">Yoo and others that their actions were legal. The</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">President and his immediate subordinates can not</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">use that. If they have committed war crimes and</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">are not prosecuted, we will shred four treaties and</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">four statutes. </P>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">Bush's actions were unprecedented. He decided</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">that he was beyond the law, and became a</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">government unto himself. If Obama prevents the</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">investigation of war crimes he will be not merely</P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0in; MARGIN-RIGHT: 3.46in">an apologist but an accessory. </P>
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