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To sum up: You apparently think this report shows the OLC recognizing its mistake and recommending rectifying it, and because it was under a Bush administration, you think there's no politics involved. I think the report is simply one more piece of evidence reflecting the complex moral problem waterboarding represents. And I think the present-day attempts to "crucify" people for their opinions is all about politics. We've both made our cases. Time to move on.
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Is there not a little bit of hypocrisy in sending low-level Nazi concentration camp collaborators to death sentences and life-in-prison while at the same time stating "no one who committed torture under orders will be held responsible"?
Bybee is feeling the heat, because if anyone will be the designated scapegoat, it is him. But he must be comforted by the knowledge that both the GOP and leaders in the Democratic party were complicit. That is, the people that hold the power to take him down, are also aligned with his interest in covering this up. I wonder what it would feel like, to be in a stake meeting, and hear Bybee's name called during a sustaining. What it would feel like to stand up, raise your right arm, and loudly say, "I am opposed." Ah, just dreams..... |
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I honestly don't know if Bybee is a member in good standing, if he is active, or what. I assume he is, but it's just an assumption.
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