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<br>Sent to local activists' group<br><br><br>Three days after President Obama took office, he conducted <br>air strikes against a country that was no threat to us, and <br>killed 16 civilians doing it. (1) I'm not a lawyer, but I think that <br>constitutes a violation of the Nuremburg Principles' prohibition <br>of aggressive war, and I fear it represents an announcement <br>that <style>
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</style>President Obama will be no more bound by treaties or <br>international law than Bush was.<br><br>Recently in the <i>Mohammed et al. v. Jeppesen</i> lawsuit the<br>Obama Justice Department reaffirmed the Bush doctrine that<br>state secrets necessitated gags on torture policies. Wikipedia <br>tells us that Amnesty International was one of the first groups <br>to protest at Jeppesen's San Jose office back in 2006. (2) <br><br>Anthony Romero of the ACLU said Obama was continuing Bush's<br>"reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous <br>human rights
violations committed by the American government. <br>This is not change." (3) <br><br><title></title><style>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">1.
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/24/pakistan-barack-obama-air-strike">http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/24/pakistan-barack-obama-air-strike</a></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">3. <a href="http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/38695prs20090209.html">http://www.aclu.org/safefree/torture/38695prs20090209.html</a></p>
<br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/24/pakistan-barack-obama-air-strike"><br></a></p>
<br><br> <br><br><br><hr id="EC_stopSpelling">Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:37:03 -0800<br>From: emmakay@stanford.edu<br>To: amnesty@lists.stanford.edu; activists@lists.stanford.edu; iraq_coalition@lists.stanford.edu<br>Subject: Amnesty: reestablishing US moral authority<br><br>ten steps- we're getting closer with obama.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/02/21/ten-steps-restore-united-states-moral-authority">http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2007/02/21/ten-steps-restore-united-states-moral-authority</a><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Political Science 2009<br><a href="mailto:emmakay@stanford.edu">emmakay@stanford.edu</a><br>406.360.0771<br>
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