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=== News Update ===
America’s Leaders Violated One of the Commandments
By Andrew Greeley
31/07/08 “Chicago Sun-Times” – – 30/07/08 — T.S. Elliot summarized the issue, “When good does evil in its struggle against evil, it becomes indistinguishable from its enemy.”
A current example is the sick morality that sees America’s program of torture during the war that “they” had done it to us and would do so again. Therefore we were not evil. The Sept. 11 attack persuaded the leaders of the country that murder, kidnapping and torture were appropriate in the war on terror. June Mayer’s carefully documented book The Dark Side demonstrates beyond doubt that the president, the vice president, the director of the CIA and their closest aides are war criminals. They violated international law, they violated American law, and they violated natural law.
Their excuse was that the president has the power to dispense from all laws in virtue of his role as commander in chief when the country is in grave danger. They have argued in their defense that the “enhanced interrogation” of prisoners has saved American lives. But they refuse to cite any cases or brutal, presidential-approved torture that saved anyone’s lives. Read the rest of this entry »