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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-21-09 01:23 AM
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Obama did not grant them amnesty.
http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20090421081237432

Obama has violated international law - expert
Published in: Legalbrief Today
Date: Tue 21 April 2009
Category: General
Issue No: 2299




US President Barack Obama is in violation of international law for declining to prosecute Bush-era CIA agents who allegedly used torture, UN special rapporteur on torture Manfred Nowak has said in an interview with Austrian newspaper Der Standard.

A Jurist report notes that Nowak said the US is bound by the UN Convention Against Torture, which requires prosecution in all cases in which there is evidence of torture. Nowak said there was still a possibility of trying agents in American courts, because Obama did not grant them amnesty. Nowak called for an independent investigation and compensation for torture victims.
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-21-09 02:17 AM
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1. Ohhhh!! Pick me!
The Con Slander machine:

Option one immediate response:

Obama should stand up to the UN. We don't need no stinkin' UN. Obama put himself in this pickle and has deeply threatened the National Security and sovereignty of this nation.

Option two immediate response:
Obama has weakened the US. He should have never released these memos. He's now a war criminal and better not travel outside of of the US. We're in serious trouble and on the greatest nation in the world is on the brink of collapse!

Option one intermediate response:
The only thing Obama has done is bow to the international community and put America into the biggest economic depression we've seen in our lifetime. His fascist policies have us looking down the abyss and we need to fight with everything we have to get our great country back!!

Option two intermediate response:
Pelosi and Barney Frank are all part of the cabal that's helping Obama bring this great nation down!!!

Campaign leading up to 2010 election:
"Make them account! We will DEMAND investigations and hearings into the Obama administration!!!!! We will have a FULL ACCOUNTING of Obama's gross mismanagement of this great country's resources and spending!!!!!!!!!!!!! We will IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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