Re: Charges Sought Against Rumsfeld Over Prison Abuse
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"Subjecting prisoners who by right could have been summarily executed as combattants out of uniform . . . ."
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Note first the lack of dispute that many torture victims were not "enemy combatants" or terrorists and were released without being accused of anything. This is a good illustration of how excessive indulgence in rightist propaganda can wreck your brain: the U.S. can "summarily execute" foreigners at will as long as they are "out of uniform."
"We have met the enemy ...."
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