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earthside

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15. I didn't know he said that yesterday ...

Reply to Octafish (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 10, 2014, 02:00 PM

Dec 2014

... when I wrote my post.

Unbelievable.

So Pres. Obama's reasoning on not prosecuting torturers is: "We won't do it again. We promise."

Oh, and more of what amounts to 'government privilege' ... those at the top have to take care of their own.

This episode is turning into a very, very low point for the Obama presidency.

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If Pinochet can go to jail, Bush can go to jail. [View all] Octafish Dec 2014 OP

Unfortunately, the people of Chile choie Dec 2014 #1

Aren't ''crimes against humanity'' international in nature? Octafish Dec 2014 #6

Because Pinochet was installed with a military coup. Bush stole an election so, Cleita Dec 2014 #7

Cleita Diclotican Dec 2014 #18

'American exceptionalism' earthside Dec 2014 #2

Constitutional scholar, too. Incredible... Octafish Dec 2014 #3

I didn't know he said that yesterday ... earthside Dec 2014 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author steve2470 Dec 2014 #4

I don't think he ever went to jail frazzled Dec 2014 #5

If we are lucky maindawg Dec 2014 #16

The daughter of one of the prosecutors at Nuremberg just Cleita Dec 2014 #8

I've always wondered how Pinochet went to trial and Hank didn't hootinholler Dec 2014 #9

He's another one that needs to be brought to justice. Cleita Dec 2014 #10

If Bush can go to jail, Obama can go to jail Freddie Stubbs Dec 2014 #11

+1000 nichomachus Dec 2014 #13

The One Case of Torture Obama Doesn’t Want You to Learn About Octafish Dec 2014 #19

I guess it's a nice dream The2ndWheel Dec 2014 #12

The US is, and has been, inalterably opposed to the ICC nichomachus Dec 2014 #14

I want them all in jail,every goddamned one of them... easychoice Dec 2014 #17