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echo: pol_inc
to: Bob Ackley
from: Earl Croasmun
date: 2009-06-01 17:49:48
subject: Re-reexamining Tortur

->  J> And with the signing of the Genevia convention
->  J> there's a good chance that Cheney's fears 'don't try me for illegal
->  J> acts..' may come true. I think it's a good idea to do so...I have
->  J> stain remover for my clothes...we need some for our government. :-|

-> Those Geneva convention *treaties* were signed by the executive and ratified by
-> the
-> senate.

By itself that is meaningless, since the Convention has no enforcement
in it.  Each country is supposed to pass laws that incorporate the
convention into that country's domestic law.  The US has done that, and
it is now a part of the US Code.  The nutcases who are hoping that some
foreign country will prosecute Cheney seem unaware of that fact.


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