Eric Margolis writes today about an issue some do not want to know or admit...
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2009/04/26/9248341-sun.html
Two morsels:
"In 1945, the U.S. hanged Japanese officers for war crimes for inflicting "water-boarding" (near drowning) on U.S. prisoners -- exactly what the CIA inflicted on its Muslim captives."
(and a few paragraphs later... )
"Now, Obama claims he won't prosecute the torturers because they were following proper legal advice and orders. So did Nazi officials who killed millions. Nazi lawyers legally dismembered Germany's Weimar democracy and imposed Nazi dictatorship in only two months after the "terrorist attack" on the Reichstag in Feb. 1933.
When I served in the U.S. Army I was taught that any illegal order, even from the president, must be refused."
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