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JJChambers

(1,115 posts) Sun Aug 3, 2014, 10:12 AM Aug 2014

We (the US) are above international law [View all]

Bush / Cheney and administration will never be charged with war crimes. It's a hard pill to swallow, but our country is above international law. Droning on and on with outrage about PBO's recent comments isn't productive and smacks of naïveté or ignorance.

This message is not intended to support our position of being above international law, quite the opposite -- but we need to acknowledge reality.

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We (the US) are above international law [View all] JJChambers Aug 2014 OP

Bush / Cheney Did more against ALL authority, recreating orpupilofnature57 Aug 2014 #1

It's not international law we should be concerned with, it is our own laws that were broken. Bluenorthwest Aug 2014 #2

Oh bolderdash ...we are exceptionalisticexpialidocious. L0oniX Aug 2014 #3

Our country PowerToThePeople Aug 2014 #4

It's so frustrating wading through the bullshit of those who wave around conservaphobe Aug 2014 #5

You think the rule of law is "crazy"? Perhaps somewhere like Saudi Arabia is more up your alley? TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #11

I'm perfectly content with my username, as well as my home here in the U.S. and my president. conservaphobe Aug 2014 #13

Technically so is Russia, England, China, and France all having Security Council a veto but we TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #6

Correct JJChambers Aug 2014 #7

Bullshit, if anyone is above the law then there is no law. The constitution creates no exception TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #10

You don't seem to understand JJChambers Aug 2014 #14

No, the current administration has elected to be accessories to the crimes but no one is above the TheKentuckian Aug 2014 #15

If the people in charge of enforcing the law JJChambers Aug 2014 #17

international law? bigtree Aug 2014 #8

Just the way it is? whatchamacallit Aug 2014 #9

Is this another way of saying, "So STHU"? WinkyDink Aug 2014 #12

"Our vital national interests" trump the law, not to mention common human decency. Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2014 #16