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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
But if "we are at war" so Obama can kill them it seems like "we were at war so bush could detain them." sidd will make the cogent point that torture isn't justofied. But you all gotta back peddle on the bush detainees were wrong thing
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If we are at war so Obama can kill them, which I did not say, then Bush could detain them as prisoners of war, to whom the Geneva Conventions would apply, which would grant them certain rights that were not afforded to them.
The position of both administrations seem to be that we are at war in some circumstances but not others, and I'm criticizing both for that inconsistency.
Why must you try to force everything into a Obama good/Bush bad dichotomy?
